iPhone set for 20th June US launch? And used to browse eBay?

Reliable Apple news site MacRumors reports that US news network CNBC is claiming the iPhone will launch on 20th June. After months of speculation about the phone’s street date, it has to be noted that this is just another in a chain of ‘this is the date!’ news items. However, CNBC’s story is that the date was ‘officially’ confirmed to them, and does at least fit inside Apple’s previously stated ‘late June’ launch timeframe.

Meanwhile, MacRumors has also found evidence that someone at Apple has been testing driving iPhone’s web browsing capabilities on eBay — and on the Mac news site itself. Server logs revealed the following browser ID string:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.3

While it’s hardly surprising that the iPhone is being tested like this (you’d hope so, right?), it’s also reassuring to see what appears to be further proof that Apple is gearing its baby up for birth.

Updated: Apple has now confirmed the US iPhone launch date as 29th June — to read more click here. To read all our iPhone coverage, click here. 

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