After officially announcing that it would carry the iPhone (thus ending O2’s exclusivity), Orange UK has recently unveiled the exact release date of its iPhone: November 10.

Orange will offer both the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS, for various prices – from free to £225 ($369), depending on the length of the contract and the data plan you’re choosing.

Customers will also be able to buy the iPhone on Pay As You Go at the following prices: £343 for the iPhone 3G 8GB; £440 for the iPhone 3GS 16GB; £539 for the iPhone 3GS 32GB.

You can visit Orange UK’s official website to see the exact prices and plans.

Orange aside, 3 UK has also announced its intentions to sell the iPhone. There aren’t clear details about this, but 3’s CEO said that they’re hoping to have the iPhone in 2010.

Clyde Bernard Franklin filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama two days ago. The subject of this complaint was a class action lawsuit that alleges that Apple and AT&T misrepresented the iPhone’s MMS capabilities.

Details of this case is pretty sketchy, and this isn’t the first time a lawsuit has been filed concerning the MMS feature. Two separate ones were filed last August.

China Unicom will start selling iPhones in China already next week. And it has already made them available for pre-order since the beginning of October.

But, at prices ranging from $730 for Wi-Fi less iPhone 3g 8GB, to $1000+ for an iPhone 3Gs 32GB, unsubsidized, it does not seem that China Unicom was happy with the initial demand.

The main reason? Imports of jail broken grey market iPhones to China. Where, according to some estimates, there already are 1.5 million of them. Bought at a prices, ranging from $430 for iPhone 3G 8GB to $730 for iPhone 3Gs. For a  $300 mark-up, quite a few potential China Unicom customers are happy to overlook that they are not carrying the original.

So what now? Well, if you can’t beat them, join them, they say. And that’s exactly what China Unicom plans to do.

One of it’s subsidiaries – Shanghai Unicom – already said that they have an amnesty for the grey market iPhone users, who will be able to sign a contract and use all the services available  to “legal” China Unicom customers. The amnesty to grey market imports will be extended to all China Unicom customers later.

Looks like a pretty smart move on behalf of Chinese carrier. They, after all, are not in the business of selling mobile phones. They are a communications service provider.

And, if the opportunity of not worrying about jailbroken software updates, hassle free iTunes sync, and access to the official app store gains them a few hundred thousand new lucrative 3G service customers, why the heck should they care were the phones are coming from?