After an entire months-long game of hopscotch, peek-a-boo, and "What Will Jobs Do Next", Apple finally reveals the… 
iPhone. Steve, you can be quite the stubborn cookie - we shall now have to differentiate between the Apple iPhone and the Linksys iPhone. Anyway, what’s probably interesting about the iPhone is not what it has out of the box, but what it DOESN’T have, for a phone that costs as much as a PS3 - 20GB and 60GB. Let’s keep it short: no 3G. As a cellphone, that could potentially be crippling to the iPhone (especially when Steve wants 10 million on the streets by next year). And if he tries to sell the phone to Japan - that country is true-blue (or blood-red) 3G country - it’s going to be murder, so we’re thinking that Apple might want to keep this as a North American release for now.
Still, the global (let alone NA) cellular industry isn’t Apple turf - the iPhone is not going up against late entrants and also-rans (e.g., Zune), but against the monoliths of the cellphone industry: Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola. Steve Jobs says that the iPhone is five years ahead of any other mobile phone. Well, not in the 3G department, most definitely. Apple iPhone: stab in the cellular dark or invasion iPod next-gen? - Mobile News - QJ.NET