iPhone references in Apple Canada source code

Our neighbors to the north may be next up for a little iPhone goodness in the not so distant future. As a HowardForums post points out, there are iPhone references in the source code of Apple's Canadian website. Thus far, there hasn't been any official word on when a Canadian iPhone release would take place. This new discovery suggests that the wait may not be much longer.

The iPhone reference in Apple's Canadian site, found by HowardForums member "Gene Rayburn", turns out to be an invisible iPhone link in Apple's navigation bar. The navigation bar link is simply commented out in the Canadian version of the site, indicating that Apple is not far off from announcing iPhone in Canada.

The actual snippet:

<li id="gn-store"><a href="http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/canadastore">Store</a></li>
<li id="gn-mac"><a href="/ca/mac/">Mac</a></li>
<li id="gn-ipoditunes"><a href="/ca/itunes/">iPod + iTunes</a></li>
<!--<li id="gn-iphone"><a href="/iphone/">iPhone</a></li>-->
<li id="gn-downloads"><a href="/downloads/">Downloads</a></li>
<li id="gn-support"><a href="/ca/support/">Support</a></li>

After discovering this, the poster checked other international Apple sites and did not find the same snippet of code anywhere else. He also dug a little deeper and found that the iPhone image used on Apple's US home page also exists on the Canadian server as well. Again, this image does not appear in other international Apple sites.

Link to US image: http://images.apple.com/home/2007/i...ne_20070807.jpg
Link to Canadian image: http://images.apple.com/ca/home/200...ne_20070807.jpg

We haven't found any other references in the short amount of digging that we've done, but if you find any other Canadian iPhone references on Apple's site, let us know!