I'm not sure about the 32GB being soon-ish. iPod Touch has 2 slots for the NAND Flash chips as opposed to just 1 on the iPhone 2G, because it doesn't need the GSM and BT radios. iPhone 3G also has to fit HSPA and aGPS, leaving less room.
Apple just ordered up 50K more NAND chips at the current 8GB size, so that also means they'll have plenty of supply to burn through before they move to 16GB chips (which they'll likely need to for a 32GB iPhone 3G).
X-Mas is possible. 2009 is more likely, IMHO.
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