When Apple dropped the iPhone price $200 last September, just two months after the iPhone’s release, some of you said you were okay with it because you willingly paid a premium to be an early adopter, while others of you were understandably frustrated because you would have delayed your iPhone purchase if you’d only known about the looming price reduction.

The latest rumor is that Apple will once again drop the iPhone price — this time by $100 — not long after releasing the 16GB iPhone just two weeks ago.

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As an early iPhone adopter, I willingly paid a premium price for the bragging rights to a groundbreaking new gadget.

But who knew it would be a mere 2 months from the iPhone release date before Apple would drop the iPhone price by $200 and unveil a new iPhone-like iPod touch media player?

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An AT&T store rep. told the blogger at Tekno Junkie that the iPhone would retail at a non-contract price of $899/$999 for the 4GB and 8GB phones.

The prices are worth noting, but as I’ve said before, I don’t trust store sales reps. so I’ll take this rumor with a grain of salt.

The results of a recent Markitecture survey have many bloggers lamenting that “only 6%” of the mobile phone market plan to buy the iPhone in 2007.

Clearly, no one is doing the math, because based on year-end 2005 statistics, there are now over 200 million mobile phone users in the U.S. Six percent of 200 million equals 12 million users “likely to buy the iPhone within the next year.”

By those measures, Apple’s goal to sell 10 million iPhones by 2007’s end will be surpassed by an additional 2 million or more phones.

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Engadget Mobile has leaked an AT&T document revealing answers to some of the questions we’ve been asking about the iPhone.

According to the documents, the iPhone is still on schedule for a June launch. The phone will be priced at $499/$599 with no rebates or subsidies “at this time.” And if you’re out of contract, say in May, AT&T will allow you to sign up for another two years with the iPhone even before the phone arrives in stores — that is, Cingular & Apple stores only.

The document also said iPhone users will have access to Cingular’s MyAccount on the phone as well as via iTunes.

See the full Q&A after the jump.

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