Japanese iPhone carrier Softbank Mobile will introduce a new program giving customers free 8GB iPhones under a two year contract. Disappointment looms for those who just handed over $235 (or about 22,782 Yen) with the plan starting on Friday.

Although not clear, Softbank may be employing the philosophy that every time the price of the iPhone has dropped, demand has increased. This possibility was noted during last months earning conference call by Apple COO Tim Cook. Sales of the iPhone in Japan have been slower than expected where this plan by Softbank may potentially create the perfect springboard for iPhones into the market. Softbank are starting the “iPhone for everybody Campaign“, with the Mobile Corporation offering price cuts across the board by reducing the maximum monthly data plan rates (from $62 to $45.60) with free texts and voice calls to other Softbank Customers on the 3G Network.

It’s a nice local directory app for iPhone. 360Wichita launched iPhone version of its visual directory, allowing iPhone users to access to Wichita businesses and information including coupons, maps, pictures, and more from around Wichita.

Our community directory, 360Wichita.com, is the premier online directory of Wichita business, real estate and area attractions, designed to provide valuable information and unique visual content to online consumers. The directory is a lead generator for our clients and offers a visual representation of Wichita for visitors around the world.

It’s a nice local directory app for iPhone. 360Wichita launched iPhone version of its visual directory, allowing iPhone users to access to Wichita businesses and information including coupons, maps, pictures, and more from around Wichita.

Our community directory, 360Wichita.com, is the premier online directory of Wichita business, real estate and area attractions, designed to provide valuable information and unique visual content to online consumers. The directory is a lead generator for our clients and offers a visual representation of Wichita for visitors around the world.

Kyte offers a turnkey framework that streamlines the creation of custom music applications for the iPhone, allowing artist and labels optimize the apps as both a promotional tool and an extension of the traditional album release.

The solution’s benefits include:

• Distributed through iTunes App Store.
• Instantly updates with latest content including shows, twitter, and news,
• Eliminates the need for costly iPhone app development.
• Interactive engagement features.
• Enables you to converge online and mobile audiences into a single community.

EA Mobile just introduced the first screens of its Tiger Woods 09 game for the iPhone via Facebook, according to Pocket Gamer. So far, there are no solid details on this golfing game.

These are pegged as pre-release shots, suggesting improvements will likely be made before we actually see the finished product, but we’ve got to say it’s already looking pretty splendid.

Tiger’s recognisable, and the fully 3D fairways do justice to the iPhone’s graphical abilities. There even appears to be a reasonable amount of customisation of your golfer, and the selection screen suggests you can choose between CPU or human players, so this is likely to be a multiplayer affair.

USBfever just launched a Mini Microphone for iPhone 3G, enabling users to get better sound recording quality on their iPhone. Journalists, students, teachers or researchers probably need this tiny gadget.

Features:

• Plug and Play.
• High Quality Microphone, fine sensibility.
• Small and portable.
• No need battery.
• So conveninent, you can wear it as a necklace.
• As a capsule, so compact and lightweight.

As the site’s company noticed, for iPhone 3G, you need to download and install software (like iTalk Recorder or Easy Recorder)  to your iPhone first.

Are you using Twitter frequently? Great. Try this new app: Summizer will help you tracking the most popular micro blogging service, following friends and trends you care about. Another Twitter app on the iPhone is Twittie.

Just in case you missed about this service, it’s taken from Twitter’s site:

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages.  People write short updates, often called “tweets”  of 140 characters or fewer.  These messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search.