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The Singapore-based carrier SingTel announced it will be bringing the iPhone in Singapore, India, the Philippines, and Australia later this year.

The company owns 35% of India's Bharti Airtel, 45% of Globe in the Philippines, and fully owns Australia's Optus. A quick note: Vodafone also plans to launch the iPhone in Australia, so the device will be available there from two carriers.

A new listing of some "iPhone Black" was spotter yesterday on AT&T's account management site.

While we don't know what it was, it could be the future name of the much anticipated 3G iPhone, as it will probably have a glossy black exterior. The truth will be known in a month or so.

Here's how AT&T explained the matter: "The reference to 'iPhone Black' was simply a temporary placeholder used over the weekend for a scheduled catalog update.

Have you ever heard of iPerformer? Most likely not...

Judging by what some rumors are saying, this is the possible name of the Nokia's iPhone clone that we've first seen last August at GoPlay. There's no official info about the devise yet, only suppositions, but as much as we know its rumored features are as following: wide touchscreen, NaviScroll, QWERTY keypad, GPS, FM radio, FM transmitter, WiFi, Bluetooth, TV out, and a Web cam.

Following Vodafone's recent announcement about it bringing the iPhone to 10 more European countries, America Movil in its turn announced will be bringing the handset to 16 countries in the Latin America, thanks to a deal with Apple.

Cool, I guess soon the whole world will be able to experience the pleasure of using the iPhone...

That's interesting. According to a Austrian newspaper "Der Standard", the upcoming 3G iPhone will be first available in Austria.

This could be true, as there exists a highly developed 3G network with extensive coverage. Nevertheless, there was no confirmation or denial from T-Mobile.

They said they were not allowed to tell "when and where" the new iPhone would be released.

According to Vodafone's latest announcement, the carrier intends to bring the Apple iPhone to ten new markets by the end of the year, thanks to an exclusive deal with Apple.

These markets include Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa, and Turkey.

Currently we have no info on possible pricing and availability.

The following info is nothing but speculation, but according to what people over at Engadget found out, the launch of the anticipated 3G iPhone may be closer than we thought.

It looks like AT&T plans "an exciting Summer Promotional Launch" between June 15 and July 12, and asks its retail store employees not to take any vacations during this period.

Heating things up is the fact that, if you recall, on June 29th iPhone will celebrate its one year anniversary.

According to NY times, RIM is developing a new iPhone killer, a fully touchscreen BlackBerry smartphone.

After the release of Pearl and Curve series, BlackBerries entered the consumer orientated phone market, and started offering features like in-built camera, memory card slot, multimedia player and headphone jack.

However, those who use their handset for entertainment and web browsing will surely prefer the iPhone.

According to Chinese Commercial Times, handset manufacturer Foxconn (also known as Hon Hai) will start producing 3G iPhones in the end of May and plans to ship 3 million units in June.

The company expects to produce about 24-25 million handsets by the time they will be phased out.

If that's true, Apple will have to release the phone worldwide without any delays.

Looks like Apple iPhone will finally add handwriting recognition to its feature set.

A Chinese developer created a new application for the handset that recognizes both Chinese and Latin characters.

The program is still a beta, and doesn't support the landscape mode, as well as writing e-mails by hand. However, expect these problems to be fixed soon.