As was widely expected, Apple finally got round to launching the iPhone in the UK this morning at an event from the London Apple Store. Mr Steve Jobs himself made the trip over to make the announcement alongside the head of O2. The iPhone will be released on November 9th exclusively through O2. You’ll be able to get one from Apple, O2 or from the Carphone Warehouse.

I’ve been waiting for the iPhone for years now, I mean YEARS, and I’ve read so much about it all that I guess I was only going to be disappointed. No 3G for Europe, no 16Gb model, no MMS or unlock options. I knew there wouldn’t be but I couldn’t help hoping. It will be a standard 18 month contract, but we’ll get ‘unlimited’ data plans. (These are bizarrely actually limited)

I’m stuck with Orange until April, so rather than buy out early I think I’ll end up waiting for the iPhone v2 with 3G and maybe video calling & iChat. Let’s hope I don’t crack before then – it IS very lovely and it’s calling my name…

I love my obsolete formats, so I thought this MP3 player in the shape of an old cassette tape was fantastic. It takes an SD card loaded with MP3s, but the best thing is you can also put it in a cassette player and listen to the contents! Technology coming full circle…

Find them here…

Apple have just revamped their iPod lineup as has been widely expected. The brand new nano does video and cover flow, while the classic iPods have seen a change in styling as well as increased capacity.

The real news though, is the iPod touch, basically an iPhone without the phone, and it looks lovely. Running OSX lite just like the iPhone it has wifi for browsing and purchasing from the iTunes store, and somewhat suprisingly Safari. This means it is a fully featured web browser, which I guess is needed in order to allow people to actually login to wireless networks at all, but it brings the whole web to your iPod which is just amazing. Apple have interestingly decided to reserve email capability for the iPhone for now though…

See more at www.apple.com

I’m particularly happy to see the iPhone price drop, as I’m now almost delirious to get one. Maybe we’ll see a 3G model in Europe at the old price point…?

I’ll let the video reveal the answer…