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I need guidence, if 8 is the year and teh next 2 is the week how you determined when it was made having a number like 28 or 18, someone tell me how that works?

Its the week of the year. For example, 828 would the the 28th week of 2008, 626 would be the 26th week of 2006 (although this isn't possible on the 3G of course🙂)
 
week 28 ftw...less time spent in a warehouse fresh off the facory conveyor belts. It's still hot n steamy
 
We'll need to wait until more reply, but it seems like Apple began production of the 3G iPhone the week of June 23 as week 25 is the lowest number so far.
 
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