Today a T-Mobile official confirmed that the company has signed a deal with Apple to distribute in Germany the iPhone. T-Mobile is Deutsche Telekom's mobile phone division. The official said that the iPhone will be available in Germany on November 9 and the price will be 399 euros.

Monthly rates will be announced after the phone will go on sale, the official said, quoted by Reuters. Apple is expected to confirm later this week Orange as its iPhone partner in France.

Yesterday, in a press conference in London, Steve Jobs announced Apple-O2 iPhone partnership for selling iPhone in UK.

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with O2 to offer our revolutionary iPhone to UK customers,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO during the news conference held in London. “US iPhone customer satisfaction is off the charts, and we can’t wait to let UK customers get their hands on it and learn what they think of it.”

The 8GB version of the iPhone will be purchased in O2, Carphone Warehouse and Apple stores for 269 pounds (387 euros, 536 dollars) including VAT.

"Price difference with the US is mostly VAT (value added tax), and a little part of it the due to the cost of doing business being higher here," Jobs explained.

Customers will have to sign an 18-month contract with O2, paying 35, 45 or 55 pounds a month, but they will have unlimited mobile data usage and unlimited use of 7,500 public Wi-Fi wireless Internet connections.

Despite rumors Apple didn’t unveil a 3G version of iPhone and Steve Jobs said the 3G technology is not yet good enough for the iPhone's batteries. Though, Apple CEO confirmed that a 3G iPhone could be unveiled as early as next year.

“Our phone has eight hours of talk time life. That's really important when you start to use the internet and want to use the phone to listen to music. We've got to see the battery lives for 3G get back up into the five-plus hour range. Hopefully we'll see that late next year", Jobs said.

But putting aside the iPhone launches, what is more intersting is that Steve Jobs spoke yesterday for the first time about the iPhone unlocking.

As we previsouly reported, the first iPhone unlock methods emerged in August when a

New Jersey teen George Hotz in collaboration with three online colleagues reported how to unlock the iPhone through an array of procedures detailed on his blog. The operation was fairly long, it involved some technical knowledge and wasn’t not reachable for a beginner.

Another method was unveiled by iPhoneSIMfree and starting last week the group begin o sell its hack through a network of resellers for prices from $50 to $99. But last Friday the iPhone Dev Team posted a free hack, similar to the one released by iPhoneSimFree on its download servers.

Asked about his opinion on the matter Steve Jobs said Apple will try to stay ahead of hackers.

"It's a cat-and-mouse game," said Jobs. "We try to stay ahead. People will try to break in, and it's our job to stop them breaking in."

It’s still unclear how the company plans to stop the unlockers, but probably Apple will issue firmware updates that will reverse the effect of unlocking.

But considering the number of those involved in unlocking the iPhone, Apple’s chances to keep its phone “stuck” into a specific network seem, are very close to zero.