Apple will sell unlocked iPhones in France next May to comply with a French law that prohibits a mobile phone from being tied to an exclusive wireless carrier for longer than six months. (…)

Apple may have assigned Quanta to build a second generation iPhone with a “different outer design to fit different markets,” according to a report in China’s Commercial Times today. (…)

Steve Jobs announced at this year’s Macworld conference that Cingular would be the exclusive iPhone provider in the United States, but said nothing of iPhone’s European provider. (…)