This is turning out to be a good week for European Apple fans. Yesterday Apple announced that the iPhone will be available in the United Kingdom on O2 beginning November 9th, and today Apple has announced that the iPhone will be available in Germany on T-Mobile beginning November 9th as well.
It makes sense that Apple went with T-Mobile as its German iPhone carrier. For one, by the end of this year T-Mobile will be the only carrier in Germany to offer EDGE throughout its entire GSM network (recall that there is still no 3G version). Additionally, T-Mobile is the biggest Wi-Fi provider in the world with 20,000 hotspots — 8,600 in Germany alone.
The German iPhone will require a 2-year T-Mobile tariff and will be an 8GB model going for €399 including V.A.T.
I wonder if German T-Mobile iPhones will be easily configurable to T-Mobile USA, hmmm… 
We’re still waiting for an official word on who will be the French carrier for the iPhone, but speculation continues to be that Orange will get the nod.