iPhone Release Date Confirmed: June 11th, 2007

According to this story on CNet, Cingular Wireless has confirmed a release date for the much anticipated, much hyped, iPhone from Apple.

So.  74 days and counting...  I really wonder just how many of thees units Apple and Cingular will actually sell AFTER the hype and the euphoria and the reality distortion field dissipates. 

I suspect that once people get a chance to put the iPhone through its paces and start bumping up against the battery life, the small storage size (4 or 8 GB is *nothing* to hold video podcasts, movies, etc), and the still-to-be-determined actual usefulness of the on-screen virtual keyboard, the word-of-mouth emanating from having spent north of $500 on it may be slightly less than rosy.

It will be very interesting to see what happens and what the sales are like after the iPhone has been out 3 months, 6 months and a year later.