Last week's rumor that the latest iPhone firmware would be available by today was actually legit. iPhone FW 2.2 is now available from Apple! Yes, it's got the upgrades to the Map application, among other cool things. Woot! Meanwhile, the iphone-dev team is already promising to deliver the latest PwnageTool and QuickPwn apps as soon as possible - as always, they recommend holding off the updating for now until they've been able to investigate more on the new firmware. More notes in the full article!

MCallShow, an iPhone app that shows you where an incoming call is coming from, has been updated to version 1.2. More country databases have been added to this version along with an improved callinfo location algorithm. The changelog is at the full article.

Another major franchise is jumping on board the iPhone wagon: SimCity. Not only can you play god and torment your citizens with a tornado out of nowhere, but now you can do it on the go too! The game will come out on the App store sometime this December.

I say "iPhone," it hears "sex." As to how the new Google app on the iPhone can confuse those two words, I'll never know. Apparently, it has trouble understanding British accent. The app confuses the word "iPhone" with a lot of other words too, find out more.

iTextUploader v1.0.2 is a brewed app for your iPhone that serves as backup utility for your SMS. Find out what it can do for you and how it works after the jump.

Who would've thunk? Halo Wars dumped for iPhone games? Certainly possible, but not at the forefront of gamers' imaginations,  yes? Apparently, it is very possible, and in fact is an actual reality. Two members of the Halo Wars team has jumped ship to create their own company for the iPhone as a gaming platform. Find out who and why at the full article.

The RiP Dev team resuscitates the Installer homebrew apps for your iPhone after quite a while of inactivity. Expect more updates coming your way as they work to get this project back on track. But before that, see what's new in this latest update for Installer 4.0b9

It looks like developer Richard Shearman has released another update for dTunes. This info wasn't included in the dev's post when we reported about dTunes v2.6, so we're guessing this is for v2.6.1. Hit the full article for a look at what's new.

Market researcher, the NPD Group, found that at least half of the owners of portable entertainment devices use their gadgets pretty much the same, if not more than they did 3 months ago. In other words, some people love their portable playthings more today than yesterday.

iD Software's Carmack once said that the iPhone is more powerful than the DS and the PSP combined. Adding insult to injury is Apple's Greg Joswiak, who says that iPhone gaming is doing extremely well, and that the Nintendo DS and the PSP are a thing of the past.

More bashing after the link.