NEWS: iPhone coming to Canada - Rogers Exclusive

iPhone coming to Canada

Dawn Kawamoto, CNet

Apple's iPhone is expected to cross the Canadian border later this year, the country's largest wireless provider said Tuesday.

Rogers Communications, which is also Canada's only GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) provider, will serve as the region's iPhone carrier.

"We're thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. We can't tell you any more about it right now, but stay tuned," Chief executive Ted Rogers said in a statement.

The announcement comes 10 months after the Canadian company let it slip out of the bag that it would be the exclusive iPhone provider in Canada. Rogers Communications then had retract its press release, noting it had no definitive arrangement to carry the iPhone.

AT&T to Sell 3G iPhone for As Low as $199 in U.S.

Apple and AT&T will cut $200 off the price of the iPhone 3G when it arrives this summer. The phones should hit at $399 and $499 for 8 and 16-gigabyte versions and the subsidy should drop the price to as low as $199.

Fortune has also pseudo-confirmed a GPS chip inside the new phone.

Apple Calls for WWDC Developers, Launches iPhone SDK Beta 4

posted by arn on Wednesday April 23, 2008 09:31 PM

Apple changed their home page today with a photo of an iPhone and MacBook Air with the title "Calling all developers", reminding visitors that early registration for the World Wide Developer's Conference ends on April 25th, 2008.

Meanwhile, Apple also quietly released the 4th beta of the iPhone SDK. Beta 4 adds at least one much requested feature: OpenGL ES support within the iPhone simulator. Previously, developers had to install directly to their iPhone to run OpenGL applications.

"The fourth beta version of the iPhone SDK includes Xcode IDE, iPhone simulator with Open GL ES support, Interface Builder, Instruments, frameworks and samples, compilers, and Shark analysis tool."

Developers are continuing to work on iPhone/Touch apps and games to ready for the June launch of the iTunes App Store.

Rumor: 3 Million 3G iPhones Will Ship In June (AAPL)

Silicon Alley Insider by Vasanth Sridharan

We know that Apple is (almost certainly) going to ship the new 3G iPhone in June. We think it (might, possibly) have video and GPS -- and perhaps a keyboard. And we're certain Apple is depending on it the 3G phone to help meet its 10 million unit goal for this year.