http://www.macrumors.com/2008/06/25/iphone-2-0-firmware-due-friday/

Gizmodo claims that the iPhone 2.0 Firmware could hit Golden Master this Friday. The Golden Master version is the final shipping version of a product, which means we could also see the 2.0 Firmware released as soon as this Friday. Gizmodo warns that the date is tentative, but falls in line with Apple's original plans to deliver the 2.0 Firmware by late June. At WWDC, however, Steve Jobs revised the release date to "early July".

The 2.0 Firmware will be available for free for existing iPhone owners and as a $9.99 update for iPod Touch users. The biggest new features of the 2.0 Firmware include Exchange/Enterprise support and 3rd party application support, but Steve Jobs also highlighted a number of additional improvements during the 2008 WWDC keynote. These include: contact search, iWork document support, Office documents (Word, Excel, and now PowerPoint) support, bulk delete & move for messages, scientific calculator, parental controls and additional language support.

Of note, even if the 2.0 Firmware is delivered early, the App Store launch may lag behind by a few weeks, as we've heard that the App Store is still undergoing active development.

i hope the app store comes out w/the iphone 2.0 firmware

most likely won't. at least not friday

yeah, i want the app store to be very good and if it takes a little more time to make it better than releasing it friday and not being as good, i rather wait little for it to be very good

yes i know, but i still want the 2.0 software to be released

yeah, me2

but you have to pay for it

yeah, i know, i'll have to buy myself an itunes gift card

well maybe they will release it soon...... you never really know with apple.

well, today is friday, and it's not released yet. but the day is not over

yeah, today's not over, but i don't think it'll be released today

i don't either. but anything is possible

it's 9:45, there's no way

nope