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If Apple’s recent $200 8GB iPhone price drop didn’t cause enough fiasco, the arrival of a 3G empowered model by Christmas will have iRate iPhone fans carrying torches and pitchforks.

Forward Concepts analyst Will Strauss believes that backdoor licensing agreements between Apple and 3G hardware makers gives strong indication the fruity phone maker will drop a 3G model down our chimneys by December.

He goes on to say that such a device has been in development in Santa Steve’s workshop for several months. In Strauss’s estimation the time is ripe. Alright, I’ll go along with that.

Got your blood boiling yet? No, well how about this: said 3G model will be destined to Europe…not the U.S. Merry Christmas.

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Humor site BBspot threw down the oven mitt today, mocking Apple’s recent decision to credit early iPhone adopters. Editor Brian Briggs made a comical, if poignant, news blurb announcing that Apple is making a similar compensatory deal with previous owners of Apple’s long forgotten PC, the Lisa.

Insulting and entertaining at the same time. I love it.

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Sales of drool buckets are sharply on the rise today. iPhoneSIMfree, the controversial website that has long promised to release a fully software-based unlock solution for iPhone, has delivered the goods. Their website has been revamped and relaunched as an online store complete with resellers and affiliate partners worldwide. Gadget fans the world over can now join the great global iHumping experience.

Now before you go running through the streets in your undies, again, this is not a free solution. And membership into the gentlemen’s club of iUsers won’t come cheap – here in the US, Wireless Imports will be charging $99 per software license. Ouch!

But hey, maybe you can apply that $100 coupon Steve is handing out? Ooh, sorry…that was below the belt.

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Apple unveiled a new press release, they’ve just sold their one millionth phone. It’s worthwhile to note that Jobs tends to set easily achievable goals so that they can be demolished. He wouldn’t want to eke by on the “million phones by the end of September” thing on Sept. 28th, that’s not news. If he’s sold one million phones by the 10th instead of the 30th, then he’s 20 days ahead of schedule. And then you think, “Oh, the iPhone must be selling really well.” And that’s just one aspect of his Reality Distortion Field. At any rate, the press release is after the break.

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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. Rebels. Round pegs in square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of Treos. And they have no respect for BlackBerries.

You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them, because they flash their iPhones in your face constantly, trying to impress everyone around them.

So while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see suckers genius. Because the ones who are crazy enough to spend $600 for a phone…just might be crazy enough to convince others to do the same.

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Someone pick up my jaw, I’m stunned. In a totally unexpected move Steve Jobs posted a personal letter to customers delivering a peace offering to angry iPhone users upset over yesterdays dramatic price cut. Jobs goes on to reiterate his stance that price cuts come with the territory of being an ealry adopter, but also concedes that we are the pioneers that propelled iPhone on the road to success.

In short he’s rewarding our loyalty by offering a $100 coupon good towards the purchase of any new Apple product, redeemable at any Apple Store, for iPhone users not covered under a 14-day rebate, regardless of whether their iPhone was purchased at an AT&T or Apple Store. You can read Steve’s open letter here. A method for claiming your coupon will be available on Apple’s website next week.

That my friends is class. As the saying goes…always dance with the one that brung you, and he did. Way to go Steve.

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Hot of the presses and live on stage from Moscone Center, Steve Jobs just announced iPhone Ringtones will be available for download via iTunes, in an updated release rolling out later tonight.

Keep watching.

[update] According to his Steveness, ringtones will cost $.99, in addition to the price of downloaded tracks. Uh, so that means I have to buy the song and pay another buck to get the ringtone? Not liking that arrangement.

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Those commie rats in China will stop at nothing to topple Western Democracy. This time defiling our beloved iPhone. According to Chinese state newspaper Dian Nao Bao, illegally unlocked iPhones are being sold in electronics stores from Beijing to Guangzhou. Interestingly these phones apparently originate from Shenzhen, the location where iPhones are manufactured for Apple. Didn’t Steve Jobs make a remark at D5 about ships that leak from the top? Better look in that Steve-O.

Freedom comes with a price, however. The Commie-friendly iPhone has crippled functionality, capable of making only outgoing calls and text messages. What it can’t do is receive incoming calls, which leads one to wonder why anyone, Chinese or otherwise, would drop serious cash on a disabled phone? Speaking of cash, the price tag for one of these Red iPhones is roughly 8,800 yuan ($1,170) for a taste of capitalist decadence.

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Oh Gartner, what is it with you and your schizophrenic predictions about Apple’s movements into the corporate world? One minute you’re saying iPhone is not a serious business tool and has zero chance of gaining corporate adoption, then you do a flip-flop by predicting Apple will roll out some kind of enterprise-focussed iPhone thingy. What the hell? You’re starting to worry me.

Let me clue you in on something that should help you along the way in understanding the fruity consumer company from Cupertino. Apple is purely focussed on the consumer market and not an enterprise play. Not now, not ever. The closest contraption Apple offers in its product line even remotely approaching enterprise-class is the Xserve, a blade server targeted at creative firms to simplify media storage and distribution.

Steve Jobs has no interest in suits carrying iPhones, other than his golfing buddies Eric Schmidt, Marc Benioff, and Larry Ellison.

Gartner, keep your unhinged analysis directed where it belongs…on Microsoft.

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Apple has reason to celebrate today. According to a new report published by iSuppli, iPhone topped the charts during the month of July, outselling every Smartphone on the U.S. market, even rivaling the most popular feature phone sold; LG’s Chocolate.

I find this news particularly interesting because, since its launch, numerous Smartphone fansites have long contended that iPhone isn’t a Smartphone, but rather a luxury feature phone. And therefore doesn’t compete in the same market with Palm, Blackberry, Nokia, et al. Yet according to this report, iPhone managed to best every Smartphone vendor in sales, including Palm’s entire line of Treos. Even Blackberry was soundly trounced by iPhone in popularity and sales.

Not bad for an alleged feature phone, eh? Hey, whatever helps you Blackberry and Treo fanboys sleep at night night, go right on living in that fantasy world you’ve created.

iSuppli was particularly bullish about iPhone’s growth prospects, even projecting triple-digit growth over the next two years, topping out at 30 million units sold by 2011. Not surprisingly Apple stock is up nearly 4% at the time of this post.

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