It seems o2 are blaming Apple for a shortage of UK iPhone 3G stock. In an e-mail response to an inquiring customer, Steve Shurrock, sales director of o2 had the following to say,

“We have been working continuously with them [Apple] to get as much stock for the UK as possible. Unfortunately, they have only been able to supply a small proportion of the number of phones we asked for, because they are launching simultaneously in 22 countries.”

Shurrock goes onto say that he is confident that the volume of iPhones will increase over time and become sufficient for customer demand.

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We just got out of the brand new Apple Store in Pacific Center, Vancouver. The first Apple Store in Western Canada. You can check out the pictures we got from the event below.

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Image courtesy of CrunchGear.com There are some rumors currently flying around that Telcel Mexico has signed a deal with Apple to carry the iPhone in Mexico. Telcel is the largest mobile provider in Mexico, making up over 70% of the market. It would only make sense for Apple to go with them, but so soon? more »

And yet another iPhone is launched in yet another country. The magical phone of dreams debuts, this time in Austria. A supposed private page has gone up on the Austrian T-Mobile site, as well as their iPhone page. The iPhone in Austria should be all set up soon on T-Mobile, and will come in two more »

If you thought the MacBook Air would be a flop, with no optical drive and small hard drive space, you may have guessed wrong. The MacBook Air has been selling quite well, and even been difficult to purchase in certain markets. For the standard model of the new and thin laptop, Apple is still assuming more »

Sprint will be “soft-launching” there new WiMax network later this week. Named mysteriously as XOHM, this network will function much like using the internet over the 3G cell network, except this network is a lot less expensive, and is open to any device. They plan to make the network available in downtown Baltimore, Chicago, and more »

A fellow Appletell writer, Michael Mistretta, came across a great little find today. It seems Apple Canada may’ve made a slight mistake when they were updating their workshop list and happened to leave in an iPhone workshop to help you get it set up. Oops. Our bet is the phone will launch on the 9th, more »

If you thought that the buzz surrounding the iPhone had died down since its launch, you are wrong. The amount of stories published about the iPhone has seen a steady increase since June 29th according to Apple 2.0. This chart from Blackfriars Communications shows the amount of iPhone stories coming out of Google News as more »

Back around the first of July you may remember when David Pogue released his iPhone Musical video. This video was a parody set to the tune of (I Did It) My Way originally a song sung in French. If you are interested in how the video came about and was created, Pogue has released a more »

Earlier this week at Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote, he announced that Apple’s new iPhone will be available starting June 29 at 6:00 PM local time. Since that is as vague as vague can be, there has been some confusion whether that meant 6:00 PM San Francisco time, or literally 6:00 PM for each market, AT&T more »