The demand for the newest generation of the Apple iPhone is so great that they are fetching upwards of $2,000 on internet auction site eBay, according to this article from PC World. The 8 GB version of the Three G iPhone is $199 new from AT&T with a 2-year contract agreement, while the 16 GB version is $299. Some carriers outside the U.S. are giving away the 3G iPhone for free as an incentive. The average price for a 8 GB version of the 3 G iPhone on eBay is currently in the $800-$900 range, while one auction reached a whopping $2,325. Once again, Apple did not have enough inventory of the new iPhone to match consumer demand. This happened when the original iPhone was released as well. But with the 3 G iPhone being able to work on other networks around besides AT&T, and the fact that the phone was released in over 20 countries on the launch day add up to a huge demand for the new 3G iPhone, even more than the original iPhone.

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Apple has released a press release that states one million 3G iPhones were sold in the first weekend of sale. After the official launch of the 3G iPhone on Friday, customers in over 20 countries ponied up $199 or more for the new device from Apple. This is in comparison to the original iPhone which took over 10 weeks to sell the same amount of units. The iPhone 3G goes on sale in France on July 17 and will be available in many more countries later this year. Apple’s Steve Jobs said “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world.”

We can confirm that the iPhone OS version 2.0 upgrade is available for download and now the problems have seemed to clear up. Today we successfully downloaded and installed the new iPhone OS version onto an original iPhone. The download went smoothly and was didn’t take very long. First, we had to download the update for Mac OS X and the newest version of iTunes. You may have already done this step. Then you simply connect your iPhone and go to check for new software. The download will start immediately and when finished it will install onto your phone. The installation process takes a few minutes, as the device has to back up all its data to your computer, then transfer the installation files and perform the installation on the device before copying the backed up files for contacts, settings, etc. Once the iPhone is updated, you can download and install applications from the App Store straight to your device via WiFi, 3G or even EDGE data connections. This means that even with the original iPhone you can download programs wherever you want, not just in range of WiFi as with the iTunes Music Store. At first glance, we think the new version of the iPhone OS is pretty cool, but we will have to do a more in depth review in order to gauge it more accurately.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle Article, todays launch of the new iPhone 3G and new software for previous models had some problems. Apparently, Apple’s servers for activating new iPhones and downloading software to update original iPhone devices crashed due to the high volume of traffic. This caused problems for people trying to activate their phones in stores, as per policy. Some customers with original iPhones were stuck with non working devices due to problems with the upgrade process. AT&T wound up having customers just take their new 3G iPhones home to activate them later. The iPhone was launched today not only in the US, but also 21 other countries around the world. The US was the only country that got the original iPhone at launch time, so this time launch day was much more hectic for Apple’s servers. Customers from all over the world were trying to activate their devices at the same time and Apple’s servers apparently couldn’t keep up.

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