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Your humble scribe is stunned, simply stunned at this development. At one o’clock I am on twitter awaiting word on the newest addition to the iPhone operating system, and the gleeful shouts of users who have downloaded or curses from the backlog of waiting for a download slot to open up.

What actually happened, for those that may have had better things to do , is that the new OS wont be available till June 17. Bwwwwwwwwwwwahhhhhhhhh ??????????, I can just see Steve chortling away, foolish minions us. It even gets better with the deathstar crew. Otherise known as AT&T, see MMS , only one of the things thats been long awaited will not be available till some time later in the summer, a software switch that tells the network not to forward an MMS or multi media message to the iPhone has to be manually deleted.

Tethering , locked right from the get go on AT&T until they come up with some way of making our American cousins pay for it. I am awaiting word that Rogers , my Canadian carrier is going to do the same thing. Hopefully the brains of that operation are going to be going with what brung em, and tethering will be free.

The only other thing of note is that a new iPhone called the 3GS is going to be released two days after the software upgrade for $299.00 for a new contract signup. Dropping the price of a 16 gig to 199 dollars and any remaining 8 gigs to 99 dollars. Now I hear that Rogers is bringing back the 6 gig data plan for 30 bucks a  month , so this will bear watching for me personally .

So instead of listening to my iPhones ipod function with the bluetooth headphones, I am going to have to wait a further week. IF there is a bright side to this debacle, its that at least the release date is now firm, instead of waiting on someones whim in cupertino.

With the Palm Pre finally out and no longer in the vapour ware  category, the days of apple leading this little dance are coming to a close, make no mistake , the iPhone will rule the airwaves for some time , but its going to have to work for every unit sold now. I only await a gsm version of the pre, before I give up and place the iPhone into iPod mode full time.