Hasta La Gadget!

The floodgates, it seems, have opened on the iPhone in the UK. A day after announcing that Orange will be getting the device in the country, one more carrier has thrown its hat into the Apple handset ring. Next year, Vodafone will become the third company to sell the iPhone in the UK, joining Orange and O2, the latter of which has had an exclusive contract for the device the past two years.

No word on an exact date for when the phone arrives on the carrier in the UK and Ireland, beyond “early 2010.” Handset and data plan prices also have yet to be announced for the iPhone 3G and 3GS.