20 more countries to get the iPhone 3G on August 22
Here's another date to mark down on your calendar: August 22. Tim Cook, chief operating officer of Apple said during a recent conference call discussing the company's Q3 2008 financial results that it expects to launch the iPhone 3G in about 20 additional countries on August 22.
"We are confident enough in the production ramp that we will be launching about 20 additional countries on August 22, which will bring our total to over 40, and we still expect to be selling the iPhone in over 70 countries later this calendar year."
The iPhone 3G is now already shipping in 22 countries including Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and New Zealand in Asia-Pacific region. The App Store was also launched on July 11 together with the iPhone 3G and, according to Apple, there are currently more than 900 apps available, with over 20 percent of them free.
However, it wasn't mentioned which countries are amongst the 20 odd places that will get the iPhone 3G on August 22. One thing we know is, SingTel, the telco that will be the first carrier to bring the iPhone 3G to Singapore is keeping mum about it. More updates to come as we hear from Apple.
Thanks Victor for the heads up!
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you mean chinese iphone wannabe? hahaha we share the same problem with iphone, not having it :p
Malaysia is not in the list, haha .. guess they wont be having it .. unless they get it bootleg copy !
somebody please inform me, when iphone available in Indonesia :-D
oh man, they hype of keeping it mum for singtel aint helping build the excitment, I wonder what they gonna do for the launch, as its coming pretty soon !
That blog is just a "copy & paste" of whatever that is reported here in CNet. Waste of time.
i think it is http://i-phone-resource.blogspot.com i tried your link but it didn't work.
i think it should be http://i-phone-resource.blogspot.com instead. heh.
the apple (singapore) website seems to have removed the "coming soon" tag on the iphone...it has "how to get ready" now!
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