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Well, Wind Mobile is here, and while people seem generally excited about their plans and service so far, the phone selection leaves a little bit to be desired. So what really is available, what is coming, and what about the iPhone?

The truphone blog is carrying a story originating at cnet about British mobile network 3′s offer of a free 8 GB iPod touch, and a mobile 3g wireless hotspot with 5GB of data for £24 ($42 CAD) a month on a 2 year contract. This is an interesting option because it allows the use of [...]

Story @ financialpost Competition in the cellular phone market is always good and is why I have included this story. A good option for VOIP users could be to get an iPhone on a “cheap” minutes plan (ideally pay-as-you-go), and get a good data add-on. One could then use Fring/Skype or some other VOIP service [...]

Not to be left out, the devs at Fring are hard at work on adding 3G capabilities to their application, hoping to be ready to submit a 3G-capable app as soon as Apple opens it up officially. Exciting times.

The Associated Press is reporting on Apple’s response to AT&T’s opening up of their 3G network to VOIP apps. “We are very happy that AT&T is now supporting VOIP applications,” said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris. “We will be amending our developer agreements to get VOIP apps on the App Store and in customers’ hands as [...]

The Washington Post is reporting that AT&T may allow VOIP apps such as Google Voice and Skype to operate on their networks, including on devices such as the iPhone. This could hopefully open up the door to the (re)introduction of some appstore apps and features which would permit the use of non-cellular voice communication on [...]

Hurray! The Globe and Mail has broken the story that Bell and Telus will be able to offer the iPhone starting net month, eliminating Rogers’ monopoly on the device in Canada. We can probably look forward to some lower prices on data plans, and with the inclusion of several small new telcos opening shop in [...]

The @fring twitter feed posted that a new version of Fring for iPhone is coming. Hopefully a few of the issues keeping it from becoming a fully-featured VOIP client are fixed. (in call dial-pad functionality for one). UPDATE: Youtube video introduction. It has now been approved.

CBC Story The CBC is carrying a story about the Skype for iPhone application release today and contained in their article is a bit about Skype-In: Another feature from the company, SkypeIn — which assigns users a phone number so that they can take incoming calls — is still not available in Canada. Company executives [...]

Today Apple updated their iPods as part of their “Only Rock and Roll” event. Despite speaking very highly of the touch during the keynote, noting its popularity, versatility, and the fact that customers have found many new uses for the touch beyond what was originally intended, Apple left it virtually unchanged. The nano got updated [...]