Perhaps the 3G iPhone will be announced sooner than June 9th. I doubt very seriously Apple was caught off guard this much so as to lose an entire month of sales.

Note that RIM got a lot of buzz today with it's "Bold" announcement, and it won't even be out until August. Who's to say Apple won't announce the 3G iPhone tomorrow (and shipping very soon) to try to steal some thunder (or at least prevent other manufacturers from stealing any of theirs). Everyone knows it will have 3G. If the next iPhone adds something like video calling and advanced GPS, it will sell like hotcakes.

Yup , maybe Apple diverted it's production to the new 3g iphone from the older iphone

Is the new phone, aside from G3, also going
to have a GPS chip?

I imagine google earth with a blinking star
saying "you are here!"
Would that not be great?

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Only a few people know for sure, but it makes a lot of sense. GPS is the next big thing in mobile phones. They will become as ubiquitous as cameras are now. Google Maps already works well with the built-in GPS in other phones, such as BlackBerry and Nokia smartphones. Apple will surely add some nice software. The real question here is whether the 3G iPhone will have some game-changing feature such as the first really usable (and first altogether in the US) video calling system. That is completely dependent on AT&T right now, as they are the only ones in the US with a network that can technologically support video calling right now.