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A friendly neighborhood AT&T employee forwarded us a purported memo for AT&T retail store employees that could provide a rather telling clue about the next-gen iPhone’s release date this summer if it proves true. A similar memo went out last year around this time requesting that employees not take any vacations between June 15 and July 15, and this year those dates are June 15 and July 12 — which seems suspiciously early, but that’s what the man says. The memo cites “an exciting Summer Promotional Launch,” which we’re guessing doesn’t refer to some new Motorola flip phone. Also telling is the fact that employees might be able to take some vacations later within that window when things die down a bit, which seems to imply that Apple could be aiming for a launch date right around the iPhone’s one year anniversary of June 29th. How romantic.

Engadget >Leaked AT&T memo points to 3G iPhone release in late June?

Hmm, if AT&T asks employees(lol @ the spiderman reference) not to take vacations, it must mean that there will be an event that require all/most of the employees to be executed successfully. That really sounds like an new iPhone launch, and if any telecomm company is going to be chosen to release the new iPhone, it’ll most likely AT&T, given it’s exclusivity deal with the current gen iPhone. It also mentions that employees can take a break afterwards when “thing die down”.

So AT&T expect a flurry of activities after the event? Well, there aren’t any other phones with the ability of attracting a massive explosion of press coverage besides the iPhone. (more…)

Omgomgomgomg, 3G iPhone!

I’m not an Apple fan boy, but I want to be.

AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega just dropped some meaty bits. He had mentioned earlier in the event that he expected all of their smart integrated devices to be 3G in the next couple months. Sascha Segan from PC Mag asked it that included the iPhone. De la Vega responded, “Let me repeat what I said: I think that you’re going to see our integrated devices be 3G devices in the not-too-distant future, and I mean months. That should be clear enough.”

Gizmodo

Hmm, does he mean release just for the US? Meh, but yay! There’s a 3G iPhone out there, well, coming out.

Walk Mossberg also said in an embedded video on Gizmodo that the 3G iPhone is “coming out in 60 days”, so that mean June 4!