Apple’s new iPhone has the potential to run new applications. Big improvements in iPhone 3G are fast 3G data networks, a GPS receiver for location services. One of its coolest features is that it can be customized with hundreds of free Web applications.

Check out the best free iPhone applications currently available - selected by pcworld magazine.

1. AirMe and Exposure - Allos you to upload pics directly from your iPhone to your Flickr account.
2. AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) - Gives you access to your AOL Instant Messenger buddy lists etc
3. AOL Radio - AOL Radio allows you to tune of more than 350 radio stations from across America.
4. Baseball - Baseball iPhone app lets you tap into the statistical database of baseball history and many more.
5. Eventful - Find local events, see what’s on at your favorite venues,and know which performers are coming soon.
6. Evernote - Lets you capture any moment or idea as it happens, wherever you may find yourself.
7. Facebook - iPhone Facebook app gives ability to converse with friends over the Facebook chat program.
8. Google Mobile App - Google app alows you to query matches for you once you type in a few letters and search any contact names that start with the same few letters.
9. iPint - Game
10. Last.fm -the Last.fm iPhone app also streams recommended tracks directly to your iPhone.
11. MixMeister Scratch
12. Pandora - Pandora radio is the personalized internet radio service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites.
13. Remote - The free Remote app lets you control your iTunes library or on-screen Apple TV action directly with your iPhone via a Wi-Fi connection.
14. SportsTap - Free app that will put MLB, NFL, NBA, international soccer, NHL, car racing, NCAA, PGA, tennis, and other sports results fast at your fingertips.
15. Twitterrific - Useful front end for the popular messaging application that auto-refreshes your incoming tweet feed
16. Urbanspoon - Choose a city to find everything about local restaurants and recommendations.
17. iFob - iFob is Wi-Fi software that helps iPod touch and iPhone and laptop owners meet each other in cafes, bars, coffee houses, or any public hotspot.
18. Midomi -Search for Music Using Your Voice by Singing or Humming

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The new iPhone 3G operating system will allow users to run third-party applications. The iPhone 2.0 software will run on the new iPhone 3G. Most applications will also run on the iPod Touch, and on existing iPhones once the new iPhone 2.0 software has been downloaded.

Here is the list of 9 hot iPhone applications picked by Information Week magazine.

1. Quickoffice - Ability to edit Microsoft Word, Excel etc and to sync between the smartphone and desktop or laptop computers.
2. NotepadSync - Lets you write text memos on your iPhone and have them sync to an application on your Mac desktop, and vice-versa.
3. Nuance Open Voice Search - allows users to use voice recognition to dial phone numbers, search for locations on Google Maps etc.
4. OmniFocus - To get yourself organized.
5. Things - Tool for organizing your task list.
6. Loopt - Mobile service that allows users to track friends on a map and communicate with them.
7. Qik And TomTom - Social networking application for sharing videos.
8. Enterprise Apps & Games - to get your work done and games for fun.
9. MLB At Bat - Application from Major League Baseball .

[ IW - Hot iPhone 3G Apps To Watch ]

Even before new iPhone 3G release, there are critics that iPhone have some minor and major issues. This makes the iPhone is just like any other gadget, according to FORBES Seven iPhone Disappointments article.

Here is the 7 iPhone Disappointments

1. The Cost - At the end iPhone 3G( $199 ) will cost $160 more over two years than the original iPhone ( $499 )
2. No Flash - iPhone still doesn’t support Adobe’s Flash
3. No Replaceable Batteries
4. No Video Recording
5. No Cut-And-Paste
6. No Multimedia Messaging Service
7. No Voice Dialing

[ Seven iPhone Disappointments ]

From money.cnn

In the U.S., IPhone exclusive service provider AT&T will charge $199 for an iPhone with an 8-gigbyte hard drive and $299 for a model with a 16-gigabyte hard drive, as long as the buyer also subscribes to its cell phone service (2 years contract). It also will sell an iPhone contract-free, at $599 and $699 respectively, and then give buyers an option to use AT&T services without a contract.

While the consumer will be paying about $200 less for each iPhone, Apple is seen as making more money, thanks to the subsidies that the phone’s carriers, including AT&T Inc. (T), will pay. While the companies involved won’t comment on the plan, industry observers now suspect the subsidies may total more than $300 a phone, giving Apple an extra $100 or more on each phone sold.

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