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Both Engadget and Gizmodo, those lucky [redacteds], got some hands on time with the new iPhone 3G. Ushered into a secret, dimly lit back room and likely surrounded by storm troopers, they came back with the following:

The Good

• 3G is faassst! 2X EDGE on quicky test, and can be Settings disabled (for those who won’t spring for the extra $10?).
• Better phone quality.
• Flush headphone jack for realz!
• Camera software improved, same megapixels, better images.
• Build quality, even on the all new, all plastic back, felt okay. Lighter, better fit, and design-wizardly thin. Bonus points for Jony Ive!

The Bad

• Oh, cut and paste, where art thou? C’mon Apple! You nailed this with Mac 1.0!
• Chrome buttons are for realz as well!
• No WiFi 802.11n! This, the iPod Touch, and the MacMini are still the only Apple devices to bring down your network speed.
• No sign of video iChat, or video recording.
• No sign of A2DP stereo Bluetooth, and no comment on whether its in or coming.
• Dock now sold separately. Guess that $199 price point gotta hit us somewhere?!)

The Ugly

• The predicted after-market for your old iPhone 1.0 (though if you manage to catch some people stuck on non-Apple signed carriers who want a jailbroken iPhone, given the new activation policies, there could just be a resurgence…)

Can’t wait to get your hands on the iPhone 3G? What are you looking forward to most? What’s still missing for you? Let us know!

Engadget honcho Ryan Block got his techie mitts on a pre-release version of the iPhone 2.0 firmware, and here are the highlights (and lowlights!):

Exchange over Wi-Fi is not instantaneous (!). No contact search he could find. New button in Calendar don’t do nothing for him yet. App Store error’s out. Cisco branded VPN screen. Parental controls are good-to-go. Wi-Fi order can be specified in prefs. Calc has new widescreen scientific mode and icon. And his favorite new feature — Multi-Select in Mail!

Head on over for a full rundown and gallery o’ pics!