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For those of you who’s life isn’t necessarily contained within the borders of the US, and who want to take full advantage of the new iPhone 3G, read on. 

AT&T has officially announced international plans for the iPhone 3G, intended to accompany the existing 20 and 50MB International options. The old plans cost $25 and $60 per month, respectively. The new plans, with 100MB and 200MB options, cover data costs in almost 70 countries, including the biggies such as Canada, France, Mexico, China, India, Germany and Japan. If you are interested in the 100MB option, it will set you back $120 per month, whereas the 200MB option weighs in at an even $200. 

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When Steve Jobs set some lofty iPhone 3G sales goals, some said it couldn’t be done. Well, to the naysayers dismay, it looks as though Apple is well on its way to its goals, and then some. With the original iPhone selling 6 million units in the first year, it seems as though Apple may pass that mark after about a month and a half. 

According to recent reports, anonymous sources claim that the main assembler of the phones, Foxconn, is pumping out iPhones to the tune of 800,000 per week. Also in the tip were rumors of Foxconn increasing that output in the near future. Now, if you do the math, the iPhone 3G should have passed the 6 million mark within the week.

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Orange, the exclusive iPhone carrier in France, has admitted to capping their 3G download speeds after receiving many complaints from users and several customers comparing speeds to other European countries. iPhone users on the T-Mobile network in Germany were repeatedly receiving download speeds of over 1800kbps, whilst those on France’s Orange network were struggling to reach 400kbps. Orange’s technical support lines were jammed with calls of slow speeds, and in some cases the support technicians voluntarily renamed the Access Point Name and other variables to increase download speeds. These customers reported speeds in excess of 3mbps.

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It may be hard to believe, but the release date of one of the most anticipated video games in a long time is nearing. In recent months, starting with the Spore Creature Creator, we have been teased and taunted with little samples of the game, intended to keep our breath bated until the 12th of September. Now, the latest appetizer for the entree that is Spore has been released. The newest installment, titled Spore Origins, has been released for game-compatible iPods in the US. Through the 18 levels of Primordial Tide Pool goodness, EA hopes to give a taste of what the full version will present itself to be.

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The iTunes Store has had its access restored in China, and is available once again. Last week, local internet police decided to block iTunes access due to a pro-Tibet album sold through the store. The web page for downloading the pro-Tibet album, which is suspected of prompting the iTunes closure in the first place, remains unavailable on the service. 40 iTunes users in China, including athletes in the Olympic village, downloaded the album before the censors interrupted sales. It’s thought that “Songs for Tibet,” an album released by the Art of Peace Foundation in support of Tibetan independence, is the album responsible for this.

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Apple’s iPhone in Russia, which will be distributed through as many as three mobile phone carriers, is likely to generate millions of handset sales. Apple expects a massive 3.5 million iPhones to be sold in Russia within the next two years, according to Reuters’ market sources who are “familiar with new deals being struck by Russian carriers.” One russian carrier, MTS, is aiming for “one million iPhone sales in the next two years,” according to Eldar Murtazin, an analyst with Moscow-based Mobile Research Group. Murtazin suggested that, “Total sales by the Big Three carriers will amount to 3.5 million iPhone within the next two years.”

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With the announcement of the iPhone 3G at WWDC also came the announcement of the iPhone’s expansion into a plethora of new countries. Reuters reports that Russia will now join that list.

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DaringFireball has an update for us on the OpenClip framework that was very promising in adding copy and paste functionality for conforming applications. It seems that our copy and paste hopes are about to be let down again.

Apparently, what was allowing OpenClip to work was a loophole.

The OpenClip framework, by Zac White, is a very clever implementation of a fundamentally unwise idea.

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve had to cut back on the amount of apps I sync to my iPhone. It’s getting a little painful to have all these pages full of apps. But when there are all these great ones coming out, what’s a guy to do? I’m thinking Apple will have to come up with a better way to organize the home screen. Maybe we could have two dimensions of pages to swipe through? How about just one big page that you can scroll and zoom? Perhaps a folder structure to pages? I really don’t know what the best answer is, but I’d like to see some improvements to app management. That said, here’s this week’s list to help solidify that there really is a problem in the first place.

The clutter-inducing list is right after the break.

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Orange, the carrier of the iPhone in Poland, is apparently not very confident that the iPhone will drum up big lines on this second iPhone launch today, August 22nd. It has decided to hire actors to stand in a line outside of 20 Orange stores, waiting for the iPhone, to “drum up interest.” Apparently, prospective buyers in Poland are reluctant to pay heavy monthly charges, and so Orange has opted to go the fake customer route.

I have a few questions…

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