Search “iPhone” on Google Product Search and you’ll find a handful of vendors offering the device for pre-order at ramped up prices.

To iPhone enthusiasts, the extra premium may be worth it to secure an iPhone while demand is high, but can these sellers be trusted?

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I’ll be visiting Italy for the first time this Thursday, May 10, through May 25 — I’m beyond excited!

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This iPhone cake is a couple of months old but I just now discovered it. Looks delicious.

Here it is on Flickr.

You’ve probably been under the impression that “iPhone” was Cisco’s word, or maybe Apple’s.

Actually, though, the word “I-phone” — short for Internet phone — has been used before to refer to the first VoIP phones (take that Linksys!), as evidenced by this 1996 advertisement:

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Remember when the first ever Apple iPod was unveiled in October of 2001?

IDC analyst Bryan Ma said Apple would struggle in the consumer electronics market, “which typically has lower profit margins than Apple gets from its computers.”

On top of that, a handful of retailers said consumer interest in the iPod “may not translate into strong sales.” In 2001, for example, a spokesperson for Circuit City said the retailer had not decided whether it would carry the original iPod.

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