It's no secret in the past year Steve Jobs has become the incredible shrinking man, going from skinny to even skinnier and leading to speculation that the pancreatic cancer that nearly took his life in 2004 had returned.

In an exclusive but not especially pleasant phone call to New York Times business reporter Joe Nocera, Jobs revealed the truth about his medical condition; here's the small part of the interview that was on the record:

Can an iPhone actually do that? I doubt it… see for yourself

Prime using iPhone 3G unlock matrix: even Optimus Prime can't unlock iPhone 3G

Even before the iPhone 3G is released on July 11th, there's already one method for unlocking the handset from AT&T - unfortunately it's a costly one.

Calling Steve Jobs a trickster God might be over the top, but if you review the particulars, the price of the iPhone has not been slashed, and is actually way more expensive!

Within minutes of Steve Jobs' iPhone presentation being concluded, the Apple store already had the 3G iPhone up for preorder. Once again the big suprise is that the 8GB iPhone 3G will only cost $199, with the 16GB costing $299 and coming in white. Both prices are with AT&T contrac. 

The handset will be available July 11th in 22 major markets, with the rollout eventually reaching 70 different countries.

After what seems like 10 years of waiting, the iPhone 3G has officially been announced!

And the device is now 3.6 times faster on the new 3G network, but the big news is the price, it's been lowered to $199 for the 8GB version. A 16GB version will cost $299 and be available in white. It also has the much rumored addition of GPS, as well as the all black back and a make that's thinner around the edges.

The App Store concept is being a little more fleshed out...

It will be available in 62 countries and developers can keep 70% of revenues. If the application is less than 10MB they can be downloaded directly on a cell phone, otherwise via Wi-Fi or the computer version of iTunes.

Applications that are free for users, the App store will host for free, and the programs will be wrapped with FairPlay DRM.

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Apparently rather than starting with any of the major changes with the second generation iPhone, Steve Jobs is having his people first roll out a series of new applications and partnerships.

According to Nobi Hayashi, described by Gizmodo as the David Pogue of Japan, while the iPhone is finally coming to his country via the carrier Softbank, it's probably to simple for the Japanese market, lacking things like a good camera, mobile wallet, and LED flashlight:

Coming to Japan,

on carrier Softbank,

when unknown.