Hong Kong's iPhone 3G gets an unboxing

iPhone SDK contains a 3G iPhone icon?

From Engadget -

Members of the MacRumors forums went poking around the iPhone SDK files and unearthed what might be an icon representation of the 3G iPhone. There's only one tiny image (scaled up on the left), but it's clearly different from the other iPhone icons in the bundle.

iPhone 3G's baseband chip revealed?

Per Engadget ZiPhone spotted some code in the 2.0 beta iPhone firmware that could identify the chip to be used in the upcoming 3G iPhone.

The code mentions "SGOLD3," which could refer to the successor of the Infineon S-GOLD2 used in the current iPhone. The Infineon S-GOLD3H has a 7.2Mbps HSDPA chip with video acceleration and media playback support. New features include 5 megapixels instead of 2 for the camera, a 2x speed MMC / SD interface and DVB-H module support. The caveat is that all these don't necessarily mean they will be incorporated into the 3G. The previous chip used, the S-GOLD2, had several features which the current iPhone does not use.

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Mossberg retracts on 3G statement

According to Silicon Alley Insider, Walt Mossberg has retracted his previous prediction re the 3G iphone coming in June. (See Walt Mossberg promises 3G iPhone in 60 days) He is no saying he has no idea when Apple will release the phone.

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Walt Mossberg promises 3G iPhone in 60 days

Per Engadget Walt Mossberg has mentioned that the iPhone will be going 3G in 60 days.

Report Says Apple's 3G iPhone Will Debut in May

According to NewsFactor Apple will start offering a 3G iPhone in May. If so, the new iPhone could spur application development as well as sales overseas, where 3G is much more common than in the US. There will be "an initial small build in May," and "significant production" in June, perhaps timed for the iPhone developers' conference that month.

Production volume run in May is expected to be more than three million iPhones, with another eight million in the third quarter. This could help Apple meet its target of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of this year. As of January, Apple has said it had sold about four million.