I don’t know who kickstarted the Apple iPhone rumor mill today but it’s cranked and running at full speed. The latest iPhone rumor claims that a 3G model will ship by the end of this year.
That’s right, there could be a 3G iPhone in the U.S. market just in time for the holidays.
According to CrunchGear, an insider claims that AT&T could have a 3G iPhone on the market before the end of Q4 2007:
An excited tipster dropped us a line today about AT&T’s network roll-out and, interestingly enough, a 3G iPhone rumor.
Clearly this is grain of salt territory, but he’s saying that AT&T employees are being told that a 3G version of the iPhone is coming out soon - perhaps even as soon as Q4 2007 aka the Holidays. Popular opinion slated a 3G version for Q1 2008 or later.
What do you think? Is this rumor legit? Will there be a 3G iPhone by the holidays? Can AT&T have enough 3G deployed by that time?
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I predict that not only will the phone have 3Gs, but an insider wearing particularly cool looking glasses and sipping Diet Orange Tab told me that we can expect to see at least 2 H’s and possibly as many as 2 additional I’s.
Therefore we can potentially hope for the iiiPhhone 3G by Q42007, unless Q from the Enterprise shows up, in which case all bets are off.