As iPhone 3G Lines Form, App Store, iPhone 2.0 Software are Ready

By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews

For some reason, Apple felt it necessary to remind us on Thursday that the iPhone 3G launches on Friday (via a press release). At the same time, however, iTunes 7.7 became available, and you can already access the App Store using it.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be directly linked yet. You can still, for now, access it through this link.

And, if you know where to look, you can already download iPhone software 2.0. According to MacRumors, a reader found this link by digging through Apple’s XML files.

Naturally, if you want to play it safe, you might want to wait for the official release. Heck, you might want to wait longer than that … based on how often updates to various gadgetry result in a SNAFU, right? I generally recommend that users wait for the dust to settle, but of course this is a highly desired software upgrade.

Reports are the upgrade has worked fine on some iPhones, but of course your mileage may vary.

Right now there are 27 pages of applications (though many of them are games, but also - many of them are free).

Now about that iPhone 3G line …