It should be available via Vodafone, 3, Orange, Phones 4U and T-mobile next week

The price tag and in the Nokia stores is £499 but you should be able to pick this up cheaper once it hits the network stores next week. But, you’ll need to sign up for a contract.

The review review below will give you a quick overview as to some of the features that are expected to come up the phone. So far we have no release date or pricing available.

The phone also comes with OS 3.0 which has made some significant improvements to features that the Phone has been lacking for quite a while which includes Copy/Paste, Turn-by-Turn Navigation, Push Notification, Notes Sync, Stereo Bluetooth, Landscape Keyboard, P2P, Subscriptions and MMS.

As we said already hit the phones expected to launch towards the end of this month but so far no pricing is available. Today (June 19th) the phones is been launched in the USA the UK and some other markets around the world. Hopefully we will get some feedback on the phone is actually like and are the improvements on the operating system that Apple have promised actually working.

I’m particularly interested in the reports on how MMS is working and the new feature of now have video. Hopefully O2 in Ireland could give us some really good pricing on this and I guess we see in the next week or so the response around the world to the new 3GS (speed) iPhone.

Update : iPhone 16GB 3G S costs €199 with the €45 per month iPhone 175 plan or €79 on the iPhone 700 contract which costs €100 a month. The 32GB model costs €299 or €169 on the same tariffs.

OS 3.0 will also work as a modem depending on what country and what service provider you are in. The download for this can be done via iTunes and is about 230 MB in size.

Below is a video review comparing the Palm Pre and the iPhone 3G which is definitely worth looking at if you are thinking of purchasing one of these particular phones.

If you happen to live in Italy, France, Spain, Germany or the UK you can also use this with the Play TV service on PlayStation 3 by simply using the phone. It has some interesting features that allows you to watch, pause record live TV from a range of free channels that are available via the phone.

It also supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSPA 850/1900/2100 so we should expect to see this in many markets when it is released in Q4 2009.  So far no pricing has been announced but as soon as we have more information of this we’ll let you know.

This is quite a nice looking phone as you can see from the photograph and comes with a 3.5 inch TFT touchscreen display.

• Quad-band GSM connectivity (850/900/1800/1900)
• HSDPA 2100 MHz
• HSDPA 850/1900/2100 MHz – the SE Satio(a) for the Americas
• Gesture control
• A-GPS
• Wi-Fi with DLNA
• VGA camera for video calls
• Stereo Bluetooth
• FM radio with RDS
• MicroSD card support, 8GB card included the box
• 112 x 55 x 13.3 mm
• 126 grams

Via : semcblog