Mobile phone users in Japan are growing more and more excited about Softbank Mobile’s launching in their shores of the iPhone 3G on July 11.

This excitement has been attributed to the Japanese consumers’ early appreciation of the iPhone 3G in terms of its versatile functionality and practical design. Results of a mid-June survey conducted by leading Japanese consumer advisory portal Kakaku.com, where 90% of the respondents are male, revealed an overall positive response (50.9%) to the iPhone 3G’s arrival.
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With a $199 price tag, the new 3G Apple iPhone is very affordable – a fact attributed primarily to low production costs.  Reports had it that a total of only $173 is spent producing one of these smartphones, a figure that is inclusive of both hardware bill of materials (BOM) and manufacturing costs.
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A lot of sectors in the mobile phone industry have been suiting up for the much-awaited arrival of the 3G iPhone; and, case and accessories maker ezGear is certainly not to be left behind.

This time around ezGear is ready to dress and armor up the new iPhone with its new line of ezSkin silicon cases – the Landau and the Plus.
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Apple’s cute little blue bird has lately been enjoying standout status at the Apple site in line with its upcoming inclusion in the App Store. Only this time, the craze is about the iPhone and iPod Touch version of the popular Twitter application, Twitterrific.

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No less than Apple main man Steve Jobs has confirmed the arrival on July 11 of the much-awaited 3G version of the iPhone.

A year younger than its original predecessor, the new iPhone is a spitting image of the first except for thinner edges, thicker mid-portion and a wee bit more weight. Beneath the surface is where it proves to be faster and more power-packed.
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