Apple iPhone's Asia availability in '08 stays

Damian Koh | Apr 18, 2007

This probably won't affect us Asian folks and it's still anyone guess when the iPhone will be available in the US. We know in June, but when?

Editors' note:

18 April 2007--According to a Reuters report, the iPhone is on schedule to be available in the US by the end of June and AT&T's wireless unit has an exclusive US deal to sell the highly anticipated handset.

According to CNET News.com's Tom Krazit, the main reason the Cupertino company's latest version of Mac OS X is scheduled for a later release in October was because it had to pull engineers from the Leopard development and have them work on the iPhone instead. In a statement on the Apple Web site, the "iPhone contains the most sophiscated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price--we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team".

Apple also said the "iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned". According to CNET Crave, FCC certification documents for the iPhone still haven't surfaced online. The moment it does is probably when we'll have more news on a launch date.

Does that mean we still have to wait until 2008 before we can get the iPhone. Yeah, probably so.

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