Apple junkies, mark your calendars: iPhone on June 29

(Credit: Apple)

Not much else to say here, other than that Apple has made it official that the iPhone will be released on June 29. That's a Friday. This means, depending on your affiliations, that you can either breathe a sigh of relief that after the 29th you'll optimally stop hearing annoying iPhone rumors, or you can stop speculating and focus on raising that $600 to feed your addiction. Now go!

Update: Check out the iPhone TV ads!

(Via Engadget)

[Mainframe]

*pout* hmmpphhhhhhhh

i cant believe they are making the rest of the world wait.
im in australia and we wont get the iphone until next year...AGHRGHRR

here's to hoping they also sell them outright and people can sell them on ebay, though im sure they will get STUPIDLY high prices on ebay if that happens :\

[UncleJon67]

Great tasting apple with a little bug.

I got the chance to use a 8gb test unit, for 25 minutes, which belongs to a
friend with AT&T (Cingular). He was checking quality & availability of services
in the VA & NC Blue Ridge Mountain region. I really like this phone! The iPod
video features worked fine as long as I did not try to answer a phone call.
From what I was told the video & sound should stop while I take a call then
start back where it stopped. The phone I was using would show a scrambled
screen when the call ended then start back at the beginning of the video. The
Safari browser is not exactly like in OS X 10. It's very easy to use. When I
would try to quickly go from one application to another, the phone would
lock-up. When playing a game & talking on the phone, I answered a second
call that came-in and my game locked-up then the whole phone turned off.
I'm told the phone would have at least one software upgrade before it goes
out to the public. I hope the problems I encountered get fixed because I am
definately waiting in line to get one!

[fleurya]

What about iPhone 2?

"breathe a sigh of relief that after the 29th you'll optimally stop hearing
annoying iPhone rumors"

Oh, it never ends, my friend. We're already seeing the humble beginnings of
the iPhone 2 rumors.MY father's brother's nephew's cousin's former
roommate works for Apple and said it will have 3G, a flexible, rollout screen
and 3D hologram navigation!!

I can't wait to see what these go for on Ebay. I bet some will reach into the 5
digit range. People really are stupid!

[MauiMac]

UncleJon67, Where's the Photos?...

UncleJon67, did you happen to take some photos of your "friend with AT&T
(Cingular)"'s iPhone?... Thats what I thought. Pictures or it didn't happen...

[sbee]

after that he woke up

After UncleJon67's iPhone turned off, he woke up and said- "Dang, I must write this drivel on CNET's Crave. There must be more stupid people like me reading and fantasizing about this phone"

[austypimpinNYC]

i indeed have a friend who is an apple programmer

he says the first one will be very buggy and require multiple firmware updates to get all the kinks out. They are in fact working on an HSDPA version, but they are only toying with the technology, if in fact the HSDPA version is released, it will be more than a year from now. He also said they are going to reduce prices when they release the touch screen video ipod in January, along with updates to the macbook with the new operating system coming in the fall. He says everything is relative to time of coarse and cannot guarantee the dates on anything except the os update which comes in the fall.

[natronforever]

Apple programmer? Wow.

I'm not sure what "relative to time" means, but assuming you weren't talking
about Einstein's Theory of Relativity, I think you were saying that your friend, if
he really exists, doesn't know what he's talking about. The majority of Apple's
programmers are likely viewed more as employees than confidants. If he really
does know specific dates to products which haven't been formally announced or
released, then tell him to go ahead and put in his 2 weeks, because Apple seems
to really value its secrecy, and your friend just proved he can't keep a secret.

[mongoos150]

Riiight. I'm sure.

I'm sure you have an Apple friend who's baggin' on the iPhone. People who actually DO work for Apple sign multiple secrecy affidavit's and do NOT talk about future products or technical details. Another point - I'm sure it won't be buggy or require multiple "firmware updates" to function properly. Apple is notorious for testing their products thoroughly and releasing well-functioning software on said devices. If they required multiple updates, wouldn't Apple simply have worked these out already, and released the iPhone with a stable firmware? *rolleyes* Grow up, hater.

[U. Tripps]

the worst features of the Windows Mobile MDA

Did anybody else ever try an MDA? I did for a month and got rid of it. It just so happens that a touch screen smartphone is not so great or intuitive as it sounds. Also, like the MDA, this thing is just too big.

[calancaster]

To the Person in Australia....

At least by waiting for next year (for your iPhone), you'll probably get a 3G version. I know technology constantly changes but there's no way I'd want an EDGE device when 3G exists. (For me having Broadband speeds when I'm away from a WiFi Hotspot is key). I might as well go buy a B&W CRT television instead of a 1080p LCD television.