The iPhone may be popular in Russia, but Apple actually hasn’t sold even one in the country due to no official deals being in place. Now, it looks as though three mobile phone companies in the country are claiming done deals, meaning the black market could soon be squeezed out of the running.

An Internet meme can come in all different shapes and sizes, from LOLcats to Rickrolling, and everything in between. And the latest viral to hit the Web is an Apple factory worker in China known simply as ‘iPhone Girl’.

AT&T has announced new roaming data plans for the iPhone. There are two new plans and neither look cheap, except of course to the telco.

While it was widely speculated that the 3G chip installed in the iPhone was the cause of some ill-fated owner’s connection problems, some new data coming from Wired.com is stating the exact opposite.  A study is showing that AT&T and other wireless carriers around the world are to blame for the issues, not the device itself. 

A telco in Poland admitted to paying actors to line up in queues for the iPhone on launch day. It was a calculated publicity trick, ironic when in the U.S customers would pay to be in the queue.

Up until now, Apple has been known for its unshakeable thirst for perfection, with product launch after product launch proving almost flawless. But the launch of the iPhone 3G has changed all of that, and it could lead to a massive class-action lawsuit being filed against the company.

Apple’s latest firmware update, 2.0.1, seems to have caused more problems than it was worth.  Users are reporting that even though dropped calls and slow data access seem to have been curbed for the time being, other problems are now arising that are worse than the ones the update was suppose to fix in the first place.

The banking giant is going over the idea of possibly dropping its Blackberrys to switch over to iPhones for its employees.  If they make the move, it could result in a order larger than 200,000 units for Apple, the largest single order to date.

Global IP Solutions, which is a major player in the world of IP communication services, has launched an SDK aimed at providing developers the tools to create innovative VoIP applications for the iPhone.  As you may have guessed, the new-found VoIP services can only be used over a Wi-Fi connection and not via AT&T’s 3G network as some may have hoped. 

Anyone with even a passing interest in Apple products couldn’t have failed to have heard something about the ‘I Am Rich’ application that caused such a wealth of copy to be written over the past week. But was the glorified screensaver costing $999.99 an inspired piece of marketing or just moronic?