According to chief operating officer Tim Cook, very simply, this should mean that countries such as South Africa will receive the much awaited Apple iPhone 3G on this date, the 22th of August. According to MacWorld:

Questions from analysts about the tight supplies of iPhone 3Gs prompted Cook to mention Apple’s expansion plans. Cook pointed out that the shortages are a result of “overwhelming demand” and that Apple was confident enough in its ability to boost production that it would expand the iPhone’s market by 20 countries on August 22.

The countries that haven’t received the Apple iPhone 3G are listed on the image above. I’ve seen some heavy pre-sales marketing on the South African side, and I don’t doubt the same is happening in other parts of the world. Now Apple just has to fulfill their promise.

Besides these 20 countries, Apple pretends to introduce the iPhone in more than 70 countries by the year’s end, but low stock isn’t helping their delivery. Of these 72 countries already listed, 22 have received it, 20 should receive it on August, and the rest aren’t accounted for yet.

Source: MacWorld via IntoMobile

Apple just released their much-hyped iPhone 3G at the WWDC, after a 75min long keynote. Here is the press release, but before a quote from Steve Jobs. Full specifications will follow in a post.

“Just one year after launching the iPhone, we’re launching the new iPhone 3G that is twice as fast at half the price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “ iPhone 3G supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync right out of the box, runs the incredible third party apps created with the iPhone SDK, and will be available in more than 70 countries around the world this year.”

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The 3G iPhone might be unveiled at the Worldwide Developer Conference on the 9th of June, unlikely, but according to rumours, it will happen.

Lately we had many networks announcing the iPhone to retail in the countries they operate, this can be the iPhone 3G, or they might just continue retailing the original iPhone, one thing is for sure: there was a iPhone shortage some time ago, and that might be a sign for a 3G version, or simply a product reallocation.

Source: Gizmodo via Electronista