AT&T is no longer carrying the iPhone 3G phone according to an internal memo.  New customers should be directed to the iPhone 3GS according to the memo.  AT&T does not know when more iPhone 3G 8GB devices will arrive. Effective immediately, iPhone 3G 8GB is Out of Stock.  Please refer all customers to iPhone 3GS 16 GB and 32 GB models. The way I interpret this news is that AT&T thinks that by the end of this month (when a new iPhone will be for sale), the iPhone 3G will be way too obsolete to carry in stock. [SlashGear]

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) will be launching a new insurance service starting on June 6th called MobileProtect. This insurance is specifically made for the Apple iPhone and will have a price tag of $13.99 per month.

This past week Apple has made some exciting announcements.  Here is a breakdown of everything they announced.

iPad:
-On the first day, 300,000 were sold.  Thus far over 450,000 iPads have been sold.
-Best Buy sold out so Apple is trying to get them additional stock as soon as possible.
-Over 600,000 downloads occurred on iBooks.
-As of yesterday, over 3.5 million iPad apps have been downloaded.

Apple App Store:
-Over 4 billion apps have been downloaded
-Over 185,000 applications available for download now
-Over 3,500 iPad apps in the App Store

Apple iPhone:
-Apple iPhone won the JD Power award 3 years in a row
-iPhone has 64% mobile browser market share
-50 million iPhones sold to date.  About 85 million iPhones and iPod Touches on the market sold.

Apple iPhone OS 4
-Shipping this summer
-Developer preview available today
-10 billion push notifications sent
-100 New User features such as create playlists, 5x digital zoom, gift apps, geotagging, Bluetooth keyboards, spell checker, and tap to focus on video.
-Multitasking will be available on iPhone OS 4
-Folders for app icons (folder icon will have multi-icon icon)
-Unified inbox (all of your mail in one inbox) with inbox switching abilities
-iBooks arriving on the iPhone OS 4
-Enterprise: better data protection, wireless app distribution, and mobile device management.  There is also support for multiple Exchange accounts and new VPN options
-Game Center being added.  Game Center is a social gaming network for multiplayers.  There are achievements, match making, and leaderboards on Game Center. Apple has 50,700 gaming titles.
-Background audio, VoIP, background location, local notifications, task completion, and fast app switching
-iAd Mobile Advertising: There are a lot of free apps out there, but developers are having a hard time making money from them.  However most of the “advertising sucks” according to Jobs.  When you click on a banner ad on an app, it throws you out of your app and into the advertisers website.  This is why people don’t engage with the ads.  Apple has figured out a way to deliver ad content without ever taking you out of the app.  Apple will give developers 60% of ad revenue and keep 40% as part of iAd.
-The iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 3rd generation will have access to these features this summer.  But the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2nd generation will run many of these features, but not multitasking.
-iPhone OS 4 will be hitting the iPad in the fall.

New Apple iPhone SDK
-Over 1,500 new APIs available in OS 4.  Developers can now access the calendar, photo library, and quicklook.
-A new framework called Accelerate is being launched for hardware accelerated math functions.

Interesting Tidbit:
“We tried to buy a company called AdMob… but Google snatched it away,” stated Jobs during a Q&A session. [Engadget]

Guam residents will soon be able to pick up an iPhone through GTA TeleGuam starting on December 11. The phones are able through pre-order starting today. Here is the price breakdown for Guam residents:
- 8GB iPhone 3G – $99.95
- 16GB iPhone 3G S – $199.95
- 32GB iPhone 3G S – $299.95

The phone will be selling online and at certain retail locations such as the Andersen Air Force Base. Guam iPhone users will have to sign up a new plan and contract to get the device at the aforementioned prices. The cheapest plan for having an iPhone on GTA TeleGuam starts at $69.90 per month for unlimited data and 500 minutes.

China Unicom and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) have made a deal to sell the iPhone in China.  That is great news for Apple iPhone developers because their customer base grow even bigger.  Currently in China, there are about 687 million wireless subscribers.

The iPhone will be sold in China in the fourth quarter.  And the China Unicom and Apple deal has been signed for about a 3 year contract.  According to The Wall Street Journal China Unicom will not be sharing revenue with Apple but will buy them on wholesale and resell it to consumers.

The good news for Chinese consumers is that China Unicom will be subsidizing the phone.  But there is no word on how much it will be subsidized.  India on the other hand does not currently have any subsidizing phone making it harder for consumers there to afford it.

China Unicom has about 141 million subscribers as of this past July.  China Unicom hopes to attract more high-end consumers.  China Unicom will be rolling out a 3G network now.  The 3G network will be launched by September 28.

One of the problems with launching the iPhone in this market is that there are already a good number of iPhone owners in China.  About 1.5 million iPhones are floating around China that have been bought from overseas and have been jailbroken.

The Apple iPhone will soon be launching in the most populated country in the world.  A testing center for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has confirmed a government license for an iPhone prototype that was modified for the Chinese market.

It is uncertain how many licenses Apple must receive in order to sell the mobile device in China.  But Apple has nearly completed the negotiations necessary to have China Unicom distribute the phone.

An analyst Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong anticipates that the phone should be available as early as October.  China currently has about 687 million mobile phone users whereas the U.S. has about 270 million.

RealNetworks’ streaming music software Rhapsody-To-Go will be submitted to the Apple App Store for approval this week.  When the application gets approved, Rhapsody customers will be able to access on-demand streaming of over 8 million tracks within the company’s library through 3G and WiFi connections.

The application will work with the Apple iPhone and the Apple iPod Touch.  Currently a Rhapsody membership costs about $14.99 per month, but the application itself will be free. Next RealNetworks will be working on a Google Android version of their application.

Spotify, a Rhapsody competitor submitted an application back in July too.  Currently Spotify is not available for download in the U.S.  The announcement was made on the Rhapsody blog.

Although Apple iPhone sales have shot up 365% in the second quarter, Research In Motion still dominates the smartphone market in the U.S.  In the second quarter of the economy, smartphone shipments increased a total of about 13.4%.

Research In Motion and their BlackBerry devices control about 52% of the smartphone market.  But their control in the market is weakening as the Apple iPhone marketshare is starting to increase at a rapid pace.  The Apple iPhone now has about 23.3% of the smartphone market.

The statistics in the survey was compiled by market research firm Canalys.

“RIM has successfully expanded its product portfolio to include a wide selection of devices and interfaces that appeal to a range of customers at different price points,” stated Canalys VP and principal analyst Chris Jones. “This includes 2.5G models that are smaller, lighter, lower cost, and have better battery life than most of its 3G rivals.”

HTC’s smartphone marketshare in the U.S. dropped to 5.6% from 8%.  Marketshare of smartphones powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile have also dropped. Nokia has about a 44% market share in total handsets. RIM’s global share went up to 21% from 16.7% from the previous year.