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Good news for iPhone users: Google Earth is now available through the AppStore, and its free! According to users' feedback, the application runs smoothly and is even easier to use than its PC counterpart thanks to iPhone's multi-touch interface.

Last week Korean Telecom mentioned that basing on the Memorandum of Understanding it has signed with Apple, they will start adding support for WiBro connectivity (Korean WiMAX) on iPods and Macbooks. Now, there's a good chance they will integrate this technology in the iPhone (3G). What do you think about all this?

Yes, it's true, and we hear a lot of guesses what the iPhone 2.2 beta 1 would actually include. The ideas are various, from full LTE and WiMAX support to the ability to run Google's Android in emulation. However, those are just presumptions and cannot be taken seriously until we hear some words from the officials.

In case you didn't know, the iPhone Dev Team has recently pwned the iPhone 2.1 firmware, and the PwnageTool and QuickPwn for the 2.1 build are already available for download here.

Briefly: Apple has released the iPhone 2.1 firmware update today. Here are some the changes made over the previous version:

• Improved battery life management;
• Reduced backup times to iTunes;
• Improved email reliability (especially for getting mail from POP and Exchange accounts);
• Faster app installations;
• Fewer call setup failures and call drops;
• Faster text messaging, loading of contacts and more;
• Improved accuracy on the 3G signal strength display;

etc.

The new iPhone 2.1 software update is coming soon for iPhone (3G) and iPod touch. Some of its main improvements are fixed crashes, longer battery, and faster backups, but there was no word on the copy/paste function. Oh well, we'll see it on Friday. Be informed, that owners of the iPod touch will have to shell out $10 to get their player updated.

Apple has released the new iPhone 2.0.2 firmware update. It is available for download now through iTunes and supposedly fixes some bugs, which Apple didn't name.

Most of the iPhone owners remember the recently appeared “I Am Rich” application, which was pulled off the App Store today. For just $999.99 it displayed a shining ruby on the dark background and a short mantra to read about how perfect your life is.
Well, some person made a short video "walkthrough" for it, probably being in the state of have-nothing-better-to-do.

The iPhone Dev Team has released their Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 for the new iPhone firmware version 2.0.1. As expected it only jailbreaks the device.

Developers however advice not to update to the latest firmware build if you plan to unlock your handset with the future Pwnage Tool.

iPhoneBuzz has made a comparative video analysis of iPhone 2.0 and iPhone 2.0.1 firmware versions. Overall, the latter proves to be noticeably faster than the previous. That's good, but don't rush to update your phone now.