Apple announced today that its latest gadget, iPhone, was approved by FCC. According to the documents posted by FCC on its website, iPhone passed all the tests for compliance.

"The iPhone has passed its required FCC certification milestone and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned," said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris.

iPhone is described by FCC as "GSM cellular telephone with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi."

The June release of iPhone was confirmed also by Mark Siegel, a spokesman for AT&T Inc.'s Cingular, the cellular carrier with an exclusive contract to distribute the highly anticipated product.

Last month, Apple confirmed it will ship the iPhone in the U.S. on June 11, the first day of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The 4 gigabyte version will cost 499 dollars. The 8 gigabyte version will cost 599 dollars. The device features a touch-screen input technology called Multi- Touch, controlled by sliding a finger across its touch-sensitive, 9- centimetre (3.5-inch), 160-pixel-per-inch display. The display automatically switches between landscape or portrait mode thanks to a built-in sensor.

The 11.6-millimetre thick device also sports a 2-megapixel camera, headset jack, 3.5-millimetre audio jack, SIM tray, a sleep-wake switch, speaker, microphone and an iPod dock connector. The quad-band GSM plus EDGE phone also has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 capabilities. Future versions will carry 3G capabilities. Apple said that iPhone will be launched in Europe, later this year

The FCC approval was issued after a posting on Engadget, qutiong a fake e-mail about a possible iPhone delay, has affected Apple’s stock.

Speaking about the issue Natalie Kerris said only that the e-mail 'it didn't come from Apple'.