29 more countries today... [u]


CNN Money reminds that Apple's 3G iPhone will go on sale in 29 more countries today--Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Niger, Panama, Qatar, Senegal, South Africa, Turkey and Venezuela.

Reuters adds that Russia's top-three wireless carriers--Mobile TeleSystems, VimpelCom and MegaFon--will begin selling the iPhone from Friday, Oct 3. And, yes, they will be unlocked and the 8GB model will sell for a bit more than $900.

Also, Macworld reports that Apple's selling unlocked 3G iPhone in Hong Kong with prices starting at $695.

[u] Lastly, in related iPhone news today, Bloomberg informs that Best Buy will sell the iPhone in Canada through its own-brand stores. There's no mention of iPhone sales through Future Shop, a Best Buy subsidiary. [u]

Editor's note: Some hiccups and whingey developers aside, this iPhone thing going very, very well.

And, why the huge, nearly 50% price difference between an unlocked handset in Russia and Hong Kong?

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