iPhone launch date “confirmed”

Tech website CNet called up a customer service manager at Apple’s partner Cingular and was helpfully given the exact release day.

Apple’s official release date for the iPhone is “June 2007” , but now things are getting a little more specific. Now Cingular is confirming that the release date will be June 11. A customer service manager at Cingular gave CNet that date late Thursday, but alas, didn’t have any additional information beyond that.

That date is no coincidence. It’s the first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, scheduled to be held in San Francisco from June 11 through June 15. (Incidentally, the agenda includes a focus on Leopard, the next generation of OS X that’s supposed to be released sometime in the second quarter of 2007.)

Unsurprisingly, a UK launch date is yet to be confirmed, but we expect the iconic touchscreen mobile to make the leap over the Atlantic this November.

Rumors have been swirling about the iPhone release date. One blog pointed to a release date of June 15 based on alleged documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, but those have been shown to be a hoax.