Apple announced that iPhone software 2.0 will be available early July. Without an actual release date, that means it'll probably hit Software Update on July 10 at 11:59PM.

 

The update will be free for iPhone owners and $9.95 for iPod touch owners.

 

The upcoming OS will feature:

 

 

- Exchange ActiveSync support so all of your important business emails will be delivered instantaneously on your iPhone.

 

- Search from within contacts, for those of us with too many friends and associates.

 

- Mass email move and delete.

 

 

- Email attachment support for Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files.

 

 

- A scientific calculator to woo all your math friends.

 

- MobileMe support. It's .Mac on steroids.

 

- And of course, third party application support for when the itunes App Store launches, also at the beginning of July.

 

iPhone software 2.0 will be a welcome addition to iPhone 1.0 and will make the 3G iPhone just that much cooler.