Next Friday the Apple’s new gadget the 3g iPhone will go on sale and AT&T seems to have learned something from last year’s launch.

The mobile carrier said that on July 11, its stores will open their doors for all the iPhone fans at 8 a.m instead of 6 p.m. as it happened last year. Also, AT&T said that all the activations will be done in-store, unlike last year.

The original iPhone went on sale last year on June 29, after it was unveiled on January 9 during the MacWorld.

According to Apple, last year, 270,000 iPhones were sold in first 30 hours and it will be interesting to see if the 3G iPhone will manage to break this record. Also, last year, Apple has sold one million iPhones in just 74 days.

Meanwhile, AT&T has revealed the new pricing scheme for Apple's 3G iPhone. Expectedly, the smartphone will be available at $199 for the 8 GB version and $299 for 16GB, with the two-year contract. Also, AT&T will offer a no-commitment option of $599 for 8GB and $699 for 16GB.

According to AT&T’s web site the service plans would cost between $70 and $130 a month. All four plans will offer unlimited use of the device's internet and e-mail services, Visual Voicemail, unlimited mobile-to-mobile and rollover minutes, while only the $130 plan offers unlimited anytime minutes.

The plans do not include texting, which is available in four plans at additional cost. For $5 you get 200 messages, for 10 bucks more you get 1500 and for yet another five dollars there's unlimited SMS texting (for those texting nuts who write more than 50 messages a day).