iPhone gets official FCC approval

Now it's official. Nothing can stop the Apple iPhone from coming into the market and into the hands of eagerly awaiting consumers. After earlier diverting coders from the Leopard project to move to the iPhone development in order to meet the June date, the iPhone has crossed another milestone. In documents released on the website of the US Federal Communications Commission, approval for the iPhone was released along with the phone's radio test results, but no unannounced phone features. Refer this story on Forbes:

An Apple representative confirmed that the phone has received FCC certification and that Apple still plans to begin selling the phone sometime in late June.
The $500 iPhone combines a smart phone with Apple's iPod music and video player, and will compete with high-end phones from Research In Motion, Palm, and Samsung, as well as phones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system.
Apple asked that the FCC keep certain diagrams and an operational description of the phone confidential for 45 days.

Not too many surprises out of these documents. People hoping that the iPhone will move to a 3G wireless capability will be disappointed since the phone will operate on an EDGE wireless data network (a 2.5G rather than 3G). There will be some geeks who will be surely disappointed with this decision.
Overall, the phone is a very anticipated phone, combining the best of a phone's capability with music and video playing, and all packaged together by Apple's design team in a veru exciting package, what with the touch screens and finger based navigation. Whether that will be enough to overcome the high price tag is anybody's guess right now.