The details of how the iPhone price dropped from $499 to $199 are beginning to emerge and according to confidential sources discussing the matter with USA Today, the bare bones agreement was if AT&T agreed to foot the bill for the $200 discount, Apple would let them stay the iPhone's exclusive carrier through 2010, an additional year.

Who ever claimed the iPhone was nearly indestructable... well it clearly wasn't a girl.

Tech blogger Meghan Asha inadvertently stepped on her iPhone with a three inch stiletto heel and did the damage seen above.

According to Nobuyuki Hayash, a Japanese reporter, even if you have your iPhone set to silent in Japan, it will still make a loud shutter sound every time you take a picture.

Why?

Because dirty Japanese men are so notorious for trying to photograph upskirts of women on the subway, that it appears that Apple got rid of silent mode for the iPhone's camera.

So apparently iPhone owners in Canada are all up in arms because exclusive carrier Rogers Communications is ripping their customers with over-the-top data plans, - 300 weekday minutes, 750mb data cap on 3G phones, with a three year commitment for 75 bucks a month... $93 with tax.

iSuppli, who are experts at taking apart gadgets and figuring how much they actually cost to manufacture, just ran some numbers on the new iPhone 3G and estimated, the thing costs $173 to physically produce.

Here's the breakdown for parts:

That's significantly cheaper than the $226 the original iPhone was estimated to cost, and frankly that pisses me off.

Well, it been less than 24 hours since the iPhone 3G was officially announced, and the let down still has left a bad taste in my mouth. Yeah, it has 3G speed, and GPS... but that's pretty much it. All the other rumoured changes failed to materialize.

Here's what didn't happen: