Squawk Box August 27, Mobile Roundup

We had plenty to talk about today including:

The iPhone 3G is close to outnumbering first gen iPhones by selling 6 million units since launch a scant two months ago. It took the 1st generation iPhone over a year to sell six million.
Meanwhile, Android phones are still on the drawing boards as sketches of the T-Mobile G1 leak out. It’s one hot looking phone, but will they have the application infrastructure to compete with Apple…
And SmartPhone and PocketPC magazine has announced that their windows mobile focused publication is… ceasing publication. A sign of the times perhaps?
And finally… more new Nokia N-Series handsets. The N79 and N85 were announced this week. Coincident with that was a great piece by Olga Kharif in Business Week on mobile VoIP… at the same time as Nokia dropped the VoIP stack from these new handsets.

On this morning’s Calliflower Conference Call: Tom Orr, Andy Abramson, Dan Rockwell, Jeanette Fisher, Jonathan Jensen, Sergio Meinardi, Bill Volk, Sheryl Breuker, Warren Bent, Jon Arnold, Jeb Brilliant, Jim Courtney

UTStarcom, HTC out Windows Mobile 6.1 update for sliders and tilters

Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.