Initially restricted to the United States, and launched in four European countries, the iPhone is expected in 2008 to appear officially in many countries around the world, through the operators Vodafone and America Movil, the latter being left to serve much of Latin America. Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who blog on behalf of Fortune magazine, took this beautiful weekend of May to produce a global map coverage in the iPhone world.

Thirty countries should quickly dispose of the iPhone, probably after the iPhone 2 or iPhone 3G has been announced by Apple, which should arrive before the end of the month or early June on the occasion of WWDC conference. From West to East, we find that coverage is shrinking, to be virtually nonexistent in Asia, since only India is among the countries where the iPhone was announced. China but also Japan and South Korea, a country traditionally fond of high-tech gadgets, remain virgins of any trade agreement between Apple and an operator.