Considering what how they made this short film the video is excellent. At the end, they show you how they made the movie. That part is especially fun to watch.

Via. Podcasting News

And here’s the rebutal.

iPhone is scheduled to go on sale on November 9 and will be sold in Germany through Telekom Shops of Deutsche Telekom and the T-Mobile web shop. iPhone requires a new 2-year T-Mobile tariff and will be available in an 8GB model for €399 including V.A.T. and will work with either a PC or Mac.

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Unique to the UK, iPhone users will have free access to the O2′s public Wi-Fi network, covering over 7,500 cafes, restaurants, airport lounges, pubs and other locations across the UK.

iPhone is scheduled to go on sale on November 9 and will be sold exclusively in the UK through Apple’s retail and online stores, O2 and The Carphone Warehouse’s retail and online stores. iPhone will be available in an 8GB model for £269 (inc VAT) and will work with either a PC or Mac. Three iPhone tariffs will be available from O2 starting at £35.

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Here’s the apology:

To all iPhone customers:

I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.

First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399, and that now is the right time to do it. iPhone is a breakthrough product, and we have the chance to ‘go for it’ this holiday season. iPhone is so far ahead of the competition, and now it will be affordable by even more customers. It benefits both Apple and every iPhone user to get as many new customers as possible in the iPhone ‘tent’. We strongly believe the $399 price will help us do just that this holiday season.

Second, being in technology for 30+ years I can attest to the fact that the technology road is bumpy. There is always change and improvement, and there is always someone who bought a product before a particular cutoff date and misses the new price or the new operating system or the new whatever. This is life in the technology lane. If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you’ll never buy any technology product because there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon. The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of useful and satisfying service from them even as newer models are introduced.

Third, even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price. Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.

Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple’s website next week. Stay tuned.

We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple.

Steve Jobs
Apple CEO

As expected, Apple also announced a video Nano, a touch screen iPod similar to the iPhone without the phone, and build your own custom ringtones for the iPhone. Apple even inked a partnership with Starbucks that sounds like fun.

Jobs also announced that Apple’s iTunes podcast directory had hit a milestone of 125,000 podcasts. Jobs made the announcement as part of his introduction of the fall iPod line.
“This is amazing material,” said Jobs. “It’s free, and over 25k are video podcasts.” Go podcasting!

Having reviewed all that, forgive me if I don’t gush all over the place. I love my iPod and I like what Apple’s doing, but the news today just didn’t seem to have the impact that I have come to expect from Apple’s big announcements. The lead story picked up by big media is the price cut, and while that’s nice for consumers, it’s just a bit depressing if you ask me.

Apple Inc.’s iPhone outsold all smart phones in the United States during July, and equaled the sales of the most popular feature phone, according to iSuppli Corp. The iPhone accounted for 1.8 percent of all mobile-handset unit sales to U.S. consumers during July. Most iPhone purchasers in July were male, 35 years of age or younger and possessed a four-year college degree or more.

Strong early consumer uptake conforms with iSuppli’s forecast of 4.5 million iPhones shipping in 2007, rising to more than 30 million units in 2011.

…the two models of the iPhone now on the market outsold all smart phones in July, including the Blackberry series, the entire Palm portfolio, and any individual Motorola, Nokia, Samsung or other smart phone model from a branded service provider. The iPhone’s U.S. sales in July were equal to those of the most popular feature phone, LG’s Chocolate.

AT&T reported that only 146,000 iPhone users signed up the first two days of it’s launch.

Apple will probably report iPhone sales later today when it announces it’s earnings.

UPDATE: Apple sold 270,000 iPhones in the first few days.

According the the Reuters report, Kevin Chang, a JP Morgan analyst based in Taiwan, cited people in the supply channel that he did not name and an application with the U.S Patent and Trademark office for his report dated July 8.

Apple filed a patent application document dated July 5 that refers to a multifunctional handheld device with a circular touch pad control, similar to the Nano’s scroll wheel.

“We believe that iPod Nano will be converted into a phone because it’s probably the only way for Apple to launch a lower end phone without severely cannibalizing iPod Nano,” said Chang noting that the new phone could have “rather limited functionality.”

Because of the anticipated lower price, 2008 sales of 30 million to 40 million units “is achievable,” according to Chang.

This would be a much larger volume than is expected of the first iPhone, Apple has targeted sales of 10 million units in 2008, which would give it a 1 percent share of the global market and present a much bigger threat to long-established phone makers such as Nokia and Motorola.

The number of iPhones Apple had stockpiled at its 164 stores last Friday is still a closely held secret. But an unconfirmed report at the website waitingforphone, quoting an anonymous staffer in ATT Mobilty’s Commerce Group, suggests that AT&T (T) may have already fulfilled more than 1 million iPhone activations.

Macrumors, which reposted the 1 million figure, suggests that the July 4 holiday may have delayed restocking shipments.

Reuters reports 700,000 iPhone Sales

Analyst estimates for iPhone sales in its first weekend run as high as 700,000 units and investors are expecting that momentum to continue.

CNNMoney reports iPhone sales said to hit half-million

Opening weekend sales of iPhones may have reached 500,000, according to an analyst’s estimate, as Apple’s much anticipated product saw sales that lived up to and even exceeded its hype.

Rampant speculation by the press about iPhone sales without real guidance from Apple. You would think Apple would want to make sure the street had a sensible estimate of sales volume or it’s stock could be way out of whack.