For anyone who was hoping to pre-order the iPhone 3G or order it online and have it shipped to their door and activate it at home, think again.  You will need to head out to your local Apple or AT&T store to pick up the iPhone 3G.

You’ve probably heard the big news about the 3G iPhone, right? It was annoucned today at WWDC alongside the iPhone app store and 2.0 firmware… just as expected.

It seems Apple got the memo that expensive phones are hugely subsidized to sell (expensive) contracts (which make more money than the handsets themselves).  To that end, it may be allowing AT&T to subsidize the iPhone even further by letting the iPhone 2 go for just $200 with a new two-year contract.

A developer has uncovered a hidden option in the latest iPhone 2.0 beta firmware to disable or enable 3G. Current models hide the option for obvious reasons, but the 3G iPhone is likely to take advantage of the feature.

A few days ago, I wrote about iPhonebrowser which enables Windows users to retrieve music from their iPod Touch or iPhone since neither have a "disk use" mode like other iPods.  However, if you are using Windows Vista 64-bit, you are out of luck with this software.

It’s a known fact: the iPhone hasn’t reached its potential, and it’s clear Apple doesn’t intend on unlocking the phone’s true abilities. As a result, iPhone wielders often come up with really cool ways to do things with their devices, and it looks like someone’s figured out how to use Apple’s mobile to replace certain wallet contents.

The iPod Touch and iPhone are not like other iPods; possessing no "disk use" mode. With other iPods it is possible to use that mode to access the flash memory or hard drive directly and pull music off the iPod, this is not possible with the iPod Touch or iPhone. But, there is a free and easy method of getting music from your iPod Touch or iPhone to you PC.

Criticizing Apple for capping the iPhone’s potential, Orb Networks released an application enabling users to stream Live TV and other video formats to the iPhone or iPod Touch from any PC.

Up to now Google News hasn’t been available to owners of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. However, that’s now all changed, and wherever you are in the world, you’ll be able to keep up the all the latest news through Google.

A popular tech site discovered the iPhone 2.0 firmware recently seeded to developers includes a YouTube plugin for MobileSafari.app, but this plugin may not give us the in-browser YouTube support many have been waiting for.