I want to buy an iPhone in the USA (4 or 5!)

I want to know if it will happily work in the UK. I see that US Apple stores now sell unlocked iPhones like they do in the UK and with the current exchange rate it's a good deal.
I'm concerned that the US phone may have different GSM specs than the UK phone?
Will the US phone work exactly as the UK phone does?
They are triband phones afterall but would different GSM specs have an effect on 3G capabilty?

Actually, only partially correct. T-Mobile operates AWS 3G in the 1700 and 2100 MHz bands. The iPhone supports (from published specs):
GSM model: Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
(800 850 900 1800 1900 MHz)
Quad-band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA
(800 850 900 1900 2100 MHz) (800 MHz not yet announced as supported by Apple)
Thus, the iPhone operates in one of T-Mobile's bands (2100 MHz), so if it doesn't work it must be a protocol difference.

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