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  Thursday, September 25, 2008

iPhone set to launch in up to 29 more countries

. There are 29 colorful little buttons displayed on Apple’s “Coming Soon” page — it’s official list of countries where the iPhone 3G is scheduled to launch before the end of the year — and carriers in some of those countries have let it be known that their launch day is Friday, Sept. 26.

Whether the phone will come to the entire list — which runs the alphabetical gamut from Botswana to Venezuela — remains to be seen. It’s definitely coming Friday to Latvia and Lithuania, according to a press release issued Thursday by TeliaSoneria, the largest carrier in the region. And on Tuesday AppleInsider reported that local readers had confirmed that the device will be launched Friday in Brazil and South Africa. (Vodafone would only say that it expects to bring the iPhone to South Africa before the end of September.)

No news yet out of the biggest markets on that list: Russia (127 million mobile subscriptions as of 2007), Brazil (120 million) and Egypt (30 million) (link). Still no deals in China or Korea.

Apple has promised to bring the iPhone 3G to more than 70 markets before the end of the year. It launched the device in 22 countries¬[sgl dagger](or in the cast of France, shortly after) July 11. It followed up with launches in 22 more countries on August 22, -bringing the total to 44.

Its official list of “Now Available” countries, shown below, has 47 buttons, but that’s because Apple (AAPL) counts Belgium, Canada and Switzerland twice each.

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