Glenn Lurie, President of National Distribution for AT&T, revealed in a Seattle Times interview that more Google applications and widgets are in development for the iPhone.

Lurie was asked if price would be a factor in the deterent to sales of the iPhone given the low cost of competitive phones such as the BlackJac. Lurie responded, " Here's how I'd explain it. The most popular iPod, a 4-gigabyte Nano, costs $200. If you've got a RIM BlackBerry or Palm Treo, you probably paid $200 minimum. Then you've got a phone that you got for free or paid maybe $50."

You're at $450 or $500. The question you've got to be able to ask yourself is, is this device going to be able to replace those three, so you carry one? That's the question.

I think when people get their hands on it and really experience it — the touch screen is phenomenal, this touch screen is like nothing you've ever used — to experience that, the skepticism, I think, around some of those things will go away.

There are other things — you have the widgets, some of the Google applications that are coming — there are just so many things here that the price will not be an issue.

Thanks Seattle Times!