With Apple set to roll out the next major software update for the iPhone, and with it official support for third-party applications, it will come as no surprise that Google is busy prepping some new wares. “We expect to have applications at Day One”, Google’s vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, told Macworld.

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Even before the publicly available Software Development Kit (SDK) announced in March, Google had partnered with Apple to produce two of the iPhone’s flagship applications: Google Maps and a native YouTube client.

So what can we expect next from Google? While Gundotra didn’t give many clues, he did say that the company is eager to take advantage of native access to Apple’s device.

Google already has iPhone/iPod touch optimized versions of its Web-based apps that run in Apple’s Safari Mobile Web browser — Gmail, Calendar, Reader, and others — so might we see native versions of those sames apps coming to the iPhone?

Top of my list would be a dedicated Gmail client, similar to the Java version that Goo