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Now this is a big news, iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing has managed to reverse engineer Apple iPhone hardware drivers and successfully ported Linux on Apple iPhone and First generation iPod devices.

The port makes use of a Busybox installation (popular Router OS) created with buildroot, the port is in its early stages and supports Framebuffer driver, Serial driver, Serial over USB driver, Interrupts, MMU, clock and other similar basic functionality, the team is looking forward to accomplish write support for the NAND, Wireless networking, Touchscreen, Sound, Accelerometer and baseband support as the development progresses.

As rumored earlier iPhone Firmware 2.2 is now available for download via iTunes to general users, apart from several new features and performance improvements the new update fixes critical security vulnerabilities and is being labeled as a "essential update" by Apple.

The new firmware update brings the following new features:

• Google Street View with public transit and walking directions with handy option to share location via email.
• Mail improvements like better formatting of wide HTML email with resolved issues with scheduled fetching of emails.
• Availability of millions of free podcasts from your device.
• Performance and stability improvements to Safari.
• Handy option to turn text auto-correction on and off from the Keyboard Settings.
• Now pressing the Home button from many Home screen takes you to the first Home screen.
• Decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls.
• Better sound quality of Visual Voicemail messages

All new iPhone Firmware Update 2.2 loaded with new features, enhancements and bug-fixes is rumored to get released on 21 November 2008, Already available to BETA testers if released this update would be the next major update for iPhone after iPhone Firmware 2.1.

As discussed earlier on this blog the firmware update will bring new features to iPhone such as - Google Street View with transit information including walking directions, button to enable or disable Auto-correct keyboard, new Safari’s Google search bar, and few minor GUI tweaks to the App Store, However, there are no signs of much awaited and requested "Copy and paste" feature yet.

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Once punched, the chip slides into your phone with your SIM card tricking the device into believing that you are on the right network, a single one-time investment of approx. $29 will make your SIM work with virtually any locked phone out there.

SIMable Mod-Chip

SIMable SIM Puncher

Final Stacked SIM