Salivating over the Apple iPhone announced by Steve Jobs this morning? Lick your chops and collect that drool - Apple Australia says it won't be available in Australia until 2008 -- at least a year from now.

Of course, that's not to say there won't be a healthy trade in black-market iPhones on eBay as soon as they're released in the US. Just don't expect to get them cheap.

It'll be released in the US six months from now in June (Apple hasn't even got FCC approval for the hardware yet, such is Jobs' focus on secrecy), then in Europe ‘later in the year' and Asia Pacific in 2008, according to Marketing Manager Rob Small.