News.blog: iPhone out in US on 11 June

Ever since Steve Jobs' keynote at the Macworld Expo in January, we've known that the iPhone is being released in the US sometime in June. But we haven't known exactly when.

Now US phone operator Cingular is confirming that the US release date will be 11 June. A customer service manager at Cingular gave us that date late on Thursday, but, alas, said he didn't have any additional information beyond that.

That date is no coincidence. It's the first day of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, scheduled to be held in San Francisco from 11-15 June. (Incidentally, the agenda includes a focus on Leopard, the next generation of OS X that's supposed to be released sometime in the second quarter of 2007.)

Rumours have been swirling about the iPhone release date. One blog pointed to a release date of 15 June based on alleged documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, but those have been shown to be a hoax.