So, Twitter's been a shamble.. 'stressing' all day. The reason was the huge announcement that the whole interwebz seems to have been waiting for ...

The main thing I was waiting to hear: "iPhone 2.0 will be available in early for July. Free for iPhone owners, $9.99 for iPod Touch owners."

A small snippet of other interesting stuffs:

• "Apple has learned so much with the first iPhone. They have taken everything they've learned and more and created the iPhone 3G. Even thinner, black plastic back, solid metal buttons, same gorgeous display, camera, flush headphone jack, and dramatically improved audio."
• "GPS support now integrated into the iPhone. With GPS, the iPhone can do tracking. A pulsating dot is moving across the Google map as a car drives down Lombard street."
• Now on to the final challenge -- affordability. Started at $599 for an 8GB iPhone, now $399. The iPhone 3G 8GB will sell for... $199. $299 for the 16GB -- a white version of this size will be available too. The iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in 22 countries. The maximum price around the world is $199 USD

I still have that 2 pending questions:
- When will it be open to all networks 'officially' ?
- Where does UK fit in? part of the 22 countries or not?

The announcements are happening live at http://www.macrumorslive.com/ ... now that the iPhone2 details are done with, I hope the online world will calm down again ..

Update: Ooh... Apple has updated their site too: http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Update #2: BBC confirms UK is one of the 22 countries & the 8GB model will be priced £100 .. I hope they're not hypothesising.

Update #3: Interesting find ... a difference I note between the UK & US Apple Stores: Does this mean UK gets an unlocked iPhone for £100? .. wishful thinking I'd say, but not impossible.