iPhone News Updated

At the CTIA mobile conference that went down this week in Las Vegas, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega looks to have stolen a bit of Steve Jobs' thunder by all but directly confirming the upcoming release of a 3G iPhone. Speaking to assembled press, de la Vega stated on stage that plans called for all of AT&T's smart phone products to shift to 3G in the coming months.

Later in the day at a luncheon, PC Mag inquired as to whether his earlier statement applied to the iPhone. De la Vega replied, "Let me repeat what I said. I think that you're going to see our integrated devices be 3G devices in the not too distant future. And I mean months. That should be clear enough."

Such a statement would seem to all but officially confirm what many have expected for quite some time. A 3G iPhone would benefit from a pretty significant internet-browsing speed boost over the current iPhone, which uses EDGE, or 2.5G as some term it, for data transfer via the cellular network. An arrival 'in months' suggests the new iPhone hardware will likely be announced at Apple's upcoming World Wide Developer's Conference in June.

[Thanks: http://gear.ign.com]