Apple iPhone Week--iPhone arrives Friday at 6pm Local Time, Info trickling out

Apple's iPhone will finally arrive this Friday at 6pm, apparently local time. However, we wonder which time zone the online Apple Store will use. Some of the questions about Apple's iPhone are beginning to be revealed, almost begrudgingly.

The biggest question is how much will the data service cost? That is still a mystery but AT&T revealed via this Boston Globe article that canceling the two-year service contract will cost $175. Why, you ask since AT&T is not subsidizing the cost of the iPhone as with other cell phones? Well, it's because of other infrastructure costs according to AT&T. We guess that means that AT&T is incurring some significant costs associated with supporting the iPhone, perhaps like the reported beefing up of their EDGE network.

Apple released a QuickTime movie Guided Tour of the iPhone that provides a lot of details about the iPhone's operations. One of the new items is that a headset comes with the iPhone with a built-in simple remote controller.

Here's AP's article. [Bill Fox & Dana Baggett]