Apple said Thursday that more than 500 native applications are now available on the iPhone’s App Store for use with the new iPhone 3G that goes on sale tomorrow.

Over 500 apps, many free

Over 125 of those applications — or more than 25 percent — are being offered for free. According to Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, 90 percent of the remaining applications will cost just $9.99 or less.

“This is the biggest launch of my career,” he said.

If you have been waiting to get an iPhone, your patience may be about to pay off.  That is if you are not an AT&T customer and are willing to sign a 2 year commitment.  According to published rumors on the web AT&T may be subsidizing the cost of the soon to be released 3g iPhone by $200.00 with a signed contract to AT&T.

That’s a smart move for Apple and AT&T. I think it will keep a few more unlocked phones off the market and will bring a new wave of iPhone adopters to the fold.  With subsidized pricing an 8 gig iPhone would cost $199.00 and a 16 gig would be $249.00 in the U.S.  With those kinds of prices I think a few more people may be willing to live with AT&T for 2 years.

Along with cheaper prices some of the rumored new features of the iPhone are said to be 3G (of course), GPS, and some rumors are stating a slimmer package than the current.

I would not be surprised to see the phone released in 16 gb and 32 gb models only.  This can not be substantiated, but you can quote me in case I am right.  It makes good business sense, due to the cheap prices in memory and Uncle Steve wants you to have lots of room to store Apps, and movies, and music, and games, Oh my!  Apps, and music, and movies, and games, Oh my!
So if I am right quote me, my name is Kevin Morris @ www.iPhoneAppReview.com, and if I am wrong, Oh well!

Apple has just released a new version of the iPhone SDK Beta.

Here are the details as released by Apple:

The second beta version of the iPhone SDK is now available and includes Interface Builder, a powerful tool that allows you to visually build your interface and makes creating a UI as simple as drag and drop.
We’ve also added new sample code and updated documentation to the rich set of resources available to you in the iPhone Dev Center.

Log in to the iPhone Dev Center today and download the new version of the iPhone SDK.

On a site like iPhoneAppReview you may not understand the title of this post.  But let me explain, in one short article John Dvorak can bring more attention to a product and him self than a thousand press releases.

a recent article as an example
He likes to beat the war drum and gets the Apple faithful worked up, scratch a little of the chrome on the shinny Apple logo.  I think it’s great, because I get his schtick.  He does not pick his topics based on personal beliefs but on what is going to get a rise out of the community that he is attacking.  The easiest targets are Apple fans, most Apple faithful read his articles or headlines and froth at the mouth.  They discuss the idiot John Dvorak, they email his articles they go to his web site, they view his web ads, they watch him on TV, they make him money so that next month he can do the same thing again.