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A little competition never hurt anyone and in the case of Apple's iPhone, actually picked up sales quite a bit. On Tuesday, the iPhone stopped being exclusively offered by wireless carrier O2 in the UK. The device went on sale at 7 a.m. at Orange retailers with the carrier already claiming that the iPhone has gone over exceedingly well with consumers, despite already having been available to O2 customers since its initial launch.
By the end of business today, the newest UK iPhone carrier on the block will have sold well more than 30,000 iPhones.

According top Boy Genius Reort, it appears that Motorola has inadvertently turned on the page for its yet-unreleased iPhone killer. BGR hasn't provided the site URL so we have no way of confirming whether it's been taken down or not. What we do know is that the Genius has captured quite a few screenshots from the site so we can all have a look at what the specs will be. Of note, Droid has a 3.7" screen at 480x854, a 5 megapixel camera with IS and a dual LED flash, and it'll be about as thin as the 3GS. The Droid will also allegedly support Flash 10 in 2010.

BGR promises to have a preview of the phone up sometime today, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for that.

Here's an interesting statistic for you. Now that we have the iPhone and iPhone 3G, most of it's predecessors seem to be pretty low-tech and outdated, including the previous 'hot new thing', the Motorola RAZR. Still, despite already having four years on the market and widely considered old news, it's still outselling the iPhone in the US.

Phone maker Motorola is suing former company executive Michael Fenger, who jumped ship to join Apple as their VP of global iPhone sales, for allegedly giving Apple their corporate secrets in order to help the success of the iPhone. The company is claiming that Fenger has given away information about margins, operating strategies, marketing information, and customer initiatives to the iPhone maker, among other things