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If you are planning to buy the new 3G iPhone for the sake of hacking and unlocking it, you might want to rethink your strategy. As we reported earlier, iPhone 3G will not be sold online. The main reason for this change of strategy on Apple’s part is to make sure people activate their phones. In fact, Apple doesn’t even allow you to leave the store without buying your service. Now, sources are reporting that Apple will penalize people who do not activate their phones within 30 days of their purchase.

Does this all mean that you cannot unlock the new iPhones? Not really. It’s just that it will be much more expensive to do so now. But hey. If you can unlock the phone and sell it for profit (after you take out the penalty fees and …) then maybe it’s worth doing this.

iPhone 2.0 hasn’t come out yet but you can’t stop rumors from going around the net. The latest rumor is that O2 is prepared to test waters with free iPhones to customers who sign up for their premium services. Now we really don’t care about the fact that you end up paying much more in total with these new plans, but the most important thing here is that you get the iPhone for free.

The rumors are indeed true. Apple has now confirmed that the Apple iPhone 2.0 will not be available anywhere but the Apple store and the AT&T store. I really see two reason for that. Obviously, Apple wants to get iPhone in more hands this year. At the same time, last time around people used fake credit card numbers to game the system and opt out of the expensive 2 year contract which really upset AT&T. This time around Apple and AT&T want to make sure that people pay up for the service plan.

Having said that, it is really inconvenient, and I wonder how Apple fans react to it. Apple obviously could change its mind by July 11th, so don’t give up hopes yet.

Not all of them. But as expected, Apple will be selling the iPhone for only $199 ans $299 (8GB, 16GB). Also, we get the GPS and 3G service with these new iPhones. The plans are a little bit more expensive but not that much ($39.99 + $30 data).

Now who’s the lucky guy with birthday on July 11th? That’s when iPhone 2.0 will be released.

Well, it’s all over the web by now. But there have been some very interesting photos of at&t’s promotional material for the iPhone 2.0. Of course, it was pretty obvious that Apple would experiment colors with the iPhone but still the red iPhone looks very sexy! But there is a good chance that these are very fake. But with all the wacky pictures that have been online for this new iPhone, I think it’s pretty safe to say that it’d be pretty hard for Apple to surprise us with their design.