iPhone release date confirmed: yours on June 29th

Ready to pony the cash? Looks like our source was right: the iPhone is yours come June 29th. The commercial just aired on 60 Minutes, and now you can finally mark your calendar and get on with your life -- for the next 25 days or so, until you get in line for your spankin' new $600 iPhone (provided you're still willing to undergo that ugly but required two year service agreement).

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: The ads are up on Apple's site! Check 'em out.

[Common Core 2 Duo!! @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:17PM]

FINALLY!!!!
Anyone got a copy of the ad?

[CrazyasIndian @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:18PM]

second.. and yes, i wanna see this commercial!

[Josh H. @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:19PM]

Ya....i want to see that ad!

[Bob @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:23PM]

Man you going to get "Low Ranked" so fast!

[Tylerks @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:26PM]

I just saw the 60 Minutes ad. Just a simple run through of some of the functions (Phone, Internet, iPod, Email), and then a screen that had the June 29th release date. I wish I knew how to get the vid off my DVR.

[daviscollins @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:29PM]

@Tylerks

Just play it again with the DVR and then just take a quick video of it with a digital camera. It wont be very high quality, but at least we will know what it looks like.

[007baf @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:28PM]

good news - I imagine it will work. I plan on getting one, the question is do I buy it asap or wait a month or two?

[BeJiggle @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:24PM]

I would say wait a month or two. Review sites will post a TON, and you might even change your mind about getting it - plus, a few bugs may be sorted out.

[Darren @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:29PM]

Yes, the iPhone is a RAZR with a touch screen.

[007baf @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:42PM]

Done - you can see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc-DMfgPI88

[007baf @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:31PM]

I'm on Mountain time. I just set my DVR to record. I believe I can get it off my DVR, onto my Digital Video Cam onto YouTube or here if some lets me know who to get it to Engadget.

[Kevin @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:34PM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m798MzUjUz8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emacrumors%2Ecom%2F

Thanks to Macrumors

[JAcob Varghese @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:35PM]

The ad is on the apple site:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/

[Kevin @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:36PM]

Alright.. all of the three have been uploaded to apple.com

http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/

[JePe @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:37PM]

Did this commercial just confirm built in GPS!?!? Oh-Em-Gee.

[Bloobie @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:37PM]

http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/

They are all here now. Enjoy :)

[Blake Kachman @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:39PM]

A little bit quicker on the draw, lol.

[Blake Kachman @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:37PM]

I didn't see the AD but by chance was it one of these?
http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/

[Kai Cherry @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:39PM]

Heheh yeah I was just gonna point that out myself :)

-K

[jake @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:39PM]

http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/
Love Jake

[joseph cohen @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:40PM]

"requires 2 year service agreement"

[mrpysnik @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:41PM]

strait from the horse's mouth

http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/

[Manu @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:45PM]

"Use requires minimum new 2 year activation plan"

I won't be able to bring one back home :((((((((((((((((

[wslcrew @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:48PM]

Same interface on upcoming 6G iPod? I'm so excited!!!

[Blake Kachman @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:54PM]

Do tell, you got confirmation of that? I've been waiting to know.

[Kevo @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:55PM]

I don't like that activation plan requirement. Seriously, how will it work when I want to upgrade to the 3G, GPS iPhone that will come out within a year?

It's especially annoying that, at $600, we're not getting any discount for agreeing to such a long commitment. AT&T may have "broken a lot of rules" for Apple, but they sure are taking us customers to the cleaners for wanting this new toy.

[ebrunn @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:38PM]

It has already been said that current customers can get one at the same price points as everyvody else.

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/25/iphone-qanda-for-atandt-employees/

[thelion @ Jun 5th 2007 11:05AM]

No, I just called ATT telesales. For starters, you can go thru them and get an iPhone ordering on the 20th to be delivered by the 22nd for $15 overnight- ported number and all. I asked about a discount and my guy confirmed THERE WILL BE A DECENT AND DEFINITE DISCOUNT FOR A NEW 2 YR CONTRACT. Call them yourself if you don't believe me. Now I can get my phone a whole week early and avoid the mad rush to the stores!

[Andy @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:57PM]

The phone number shown on the phone's display during the Calimari ad is a Real Phone Number. It's a restaurant! Do you think they are receiving a few calls? Do you think Steve owns the restaurant? This is the first time I've seen a real phone number on an ad...usually it's a 555 number.

[Aria D. @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:11PM]

haha i called them! it is a real place. i hung up after they picked up so I dont know if they are associated with Apple or anything.

[Jake @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:57PM]

Great now who's getting one?

[Erwos @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:58PM]

I'm trying to comprehend how anyone would want to buy one when it requires a two year contract with Cingular _and_ their outrageous, $40 a month data plan (for EDGE!, to pour salt into wounds).

It may be a damned nice phone, but the service is just a stone around its neck.

[Aria D. @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:59PM]

arghh, the release is one of the worst possible dates for me.

dang, i wish i had known this sooner. Too much secrecy.

[Fourbin @ Jun 3rd 2007 7:59PM]

Unbelievable.

I am the biggest Apple fanboy but I have hated on the iPhone since day one. I'm on Verizon, love my Treo and see no reason to go to AT&T... until now.

Watching those ads made me almost cry. I'm serious. That thing is absolutely gorgeous, beautiful, amazing. The touchscreen keyboard will take some getting used to, but something tells me Apple took a novel approach to the recognition process.

Wow.

[neocane1 @ Jun 4th 2007 2:55AM]

I hate to admit it, but I agree with you... By the second ad, my tear ducts were already swollen. And then I went back and watch the other videos on the site and that was it for me. This is the future...and it's giving me goosebumps! ;P

[Glenn @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:02PM]

boycott, the price is to high.
and people were complaining about the price of the ps3.

[Casey @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:03PM]

Can't wait to get an unlocked iPhone.

[Tony Bowman @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:04PM]

i'm definitely getting one, undecided on the 4 or 8 gig model though. will depend on what they have in stock at the time when i go to pick mine up, i think. i'll settle for a 4 if they don't have an 8.

as far as GPS, i seriously doubt the map ad was a confirmation of GPS capability. it's more like that the person already had a location input, and then searched for seafood in that area, and knowing where in that area they were, they then selected the restaurant that was closest to where they already were.


in any case, i would piss my pants if it did indeed have GPS. that would be the icing on the cake.

[Bloobie @ Jun 3rd 2007 9:17PM]

The AT&T-branded iPhones (as seen in these ads) has an automobile icon in the lower-right corner of the Maps screen. This was noted previously, and is still absent from Apple's own pages (which still display the Cingular brand). It may be possible that this is for Directions, so perhaps a GPS-enabled service (similar to AT&T's TeleNav GPS Navigator) is in the works?

[Ben @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:12PM]

Um, so are the $500 and $600 price points still official? I thought there were rumors that Apple would bring down the price with a contract. I guess it's staying at $600 :\

[thelion @ Jun 5th 2007 10:57AM]

yes they will I posted a comment call ATT telesales they will confirm discount.

[Xinyu @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:16PM]

My sprint contract is ending this August, just in time to get the iPhone. Man, I can't wait.

[007baf @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:23PM]

Put it on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc-DMfgPI88

[RootAg @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:29PM]

Well now that this topic is off the table, what will Jobs headline at WWDC? I am going to predict the multi-touch MBP tablet running those top-secret Leopard apps.

[Matt O @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:33PM]

how bout a new ipod... a true video one, we have been waiting long enough damn

[JeffNLA @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:37PM]

I'm a gadget and computer nut. I bought a Samsung i730 phone the day it was released - for about what the iphone will go for.

I can't see the desire to own this phone. Granted I have not studied it that carefully - but no 3g, touchscreen keyboard and keypad - uugghh.

I have a Phillips Pronto remote - exclusive touch screen use blows. Little or no tactile feel.

Maybe I missed something. Maybe I'm just getting old.

[Common Core 2 Duo!! @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:38PM]

It says minimum 2 years required. I am going to go out on a limb here but perhaps if you sign a 3 year contract, the price drops??



mmmmmh....

[Tony Bowman @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:41PM]

no way apple drops new ipods in the widescreen/multitouch format anytime this year. there's no way they would canabalize iphone sales like that. it'd be dumb as shit to put two high-end products that share functionality out one right after other.

[ebrunn @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:44PM]

They are already in HD quality from Apple.com

[007baf @ Jun 3rd 2007 8:50PM]

I looked, but can't find it. what's the link?