Report: Apple Orders First Round of 3G iPhones

While the Times prediction that the 3G iPhone will be announced and released during Jobs' speech at the WWDC, as recently predicted here by iPhone 2.0, seems to lend a certain air of credibility to their claims, they continue on with additional reports that deflate much of the air from their standing. The Times goes on to state that the industry sources have told them that the second generation 3G iPhone will be "radically different" from the first generation iPhone released last June.

The Times states that "among the possibilities are flip version, which would enable the screen to be larger, and a sliding model with a regular qwerty keyboard - as opposed to a touchscreen one." Followers of Apple and their quest towards the iPhone know that the current design took nearly three years to perfect, making any drastic changes to their iconic design, only a year later, highly unlikely. I for one place absolutely zero reliance upon their "industry insiders" regarding the second generation design.

Their claims regarding the production orders, however, are in line with various reports over the past several days, as well as the the price drops over in the UK, Germany, and now potentially France. One way or the other, with the WWDC only 7 weeks away, we shall see soon enough....