I’m sure you’ve gone “oohh” and “ahhh” over the Apple iPhone.

For some (and for me), it’s the perfect mobile phone – Ever. Period. Now, are you wondering when is the release date for iPhone in the Philippines? Sorry but it’s not this year.

Unfortunately, AT&T has a deal with Apple for an apperent lock-down on exclusive rights as telco in the United States. The iphone was released in the US last June 29 in what Steve Jobs and company dubbed, the most succesful product intro of the 21st century.

With record-breaking sales, Apple now anticipate 13.5 million iPhone sales by the end of 2008, with Apple planning to produce 8 million of the devices by the end of 2007 – well ahead of Steve Jobs’ target of ten million sales by the end of 2008.

But when can WE Pinoys get our hands on it? That, after the jump…

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