We think its safe to say, hell no it didn’t. Brand new iPhone activations have essentially gone down and everyone - from folks updating their old phones to new 3G activators - where stuck with bricks due to high traffic volume. {Crunch}

So BGR got their hands on the iPhone (so head over there to peep their entire gallery), and Walt Mossberg at The Wall Street Journal just put together a thorough iPhone 3G review. He mentions the speed is up to 5x faster then before, the audio quality and phone reception are improved, but the battery life has worsened. Catch his full review after the break.

It looks like the VZW exclusive Blackberry Thunder we saw last month is shaping up to be quite the iPhone contender. It’ll drop on Verizon and Vodafone as a lifetime exclusive, operating on high-speed HSPA and EV-DO networks (w/ a GSM/EDGE transmitter for kicks). The resolution is 360×480, which is slightly larger than the Apple iPhone and Apple iPhone 3G.

{BlackberryNews}

So for those that do plan on purchasing the Apple Iphone 3g when it drops July 11th, keep these joints in mind. Via Goincase: “From high-style Leather Folios and Protective Covers to slim Neoprene Sleeves and sleek Slider Cases, Incase offers a protective solution for every early adopter.” Intended to be nondiscriminatory to your mobile needs, each individual case offers unique features, head over to their official blog for more info.

Well it certainty has the capacity, but since it’ll only be exclusive to Verizon, I don’t see many folks switching carriers for it. Now according to BGR it’ll have a SIM card slot (for the international known, locally accepted) a microSD slot, and should be dropping Q3 this year. And being that America is are now officially/finally in the 3G age, the chip they are using supports CDMA 1x, EV-DO, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA, etc. Stay tuned for a official release date.

So an actual Blackberry 9000 which isn’t slated to drop until August 8th made it way to Ebay. It unfortunately was removed, but of course not without folks snaggin’ a bunch of images of the next-gen Blackberry. So check out the entire gallery after the break, as well as a sneak peak of some of the official specs for the blackberry 9000…

Well its been a long, long, long time coming, and its now looking like May is the month in which T-Mobile will catch up with the rest of the world in mobile data speeds. TmoNews reports the first launch to be in NYC, and then will eventually spread to the rest of the country’s major cities throughout the rest of 2008 (list after the break). Although this news isn’t confirmed, Giz also mentions that it does seem to coincide with the HTC Touch Dual Into Mobile found on the FCC, headed toward T-Mobile which features 3G HSDPA. One could even speculate further if you acknowledge the news of the blackberry 9000 sporting a video conferencing front camera, which can only be utilized with 3G…