Can be pre-ordered already on line and at selected stores

Milan, 10 June 2008 – The new 3G iPhone will be on sale in Vodafone stores from 11 July. Whilst awaiting arrival of the innovative handset, Apple’s new phone can be pre-ordered right away from Vodafone Italia. From today, the iPhone can be easily pre-ordered by visiting the Vodafone website or by going to one of a wide selection of Vodafone Italia’s stores listed at www.vodafone.it. Those who register will receive details of the offering via e-mail and information on the new 8Gb or 16Gb iPhones.

The 3G iPhone will be available to both contract customers, based on particularly simple price plans, and to pay-as-you-go users, and will include a wide range of data offerings. By choosing a contract price plan, such as iPhone Vodafone Facile, it will be possible, for example, to have an Apple phone at a particularly attractive price. People preferring a pre-pay plan for private users can buy the 8Gb iPhone for €499 or the 16GB model for €569.

iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK.

With the launch of the iPhone, Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile community, will introduce the iPhone into ten countries: Australia, Italy, New Zealand and Portugal from 11 July; the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, India, South Africa and Turkey later in the year.

For further information contact:

Vodafone Italia Press Office: 02.4143.3491 – 06.5092.2511