It is official, Wal-Mart, one of the largest retail chains, will soon be selling the Apple iPhone. It was first rumored that Wal-Mart would sell a 4gig iPhone for $200. That rumor is now being questioned and  will most likely be false.

If this goes through, you will be able to walk into any Wal-Mart, sign a 2-year contract, and leave with an iPhone. Sounds simple, but it remains to be seen exactly how the process will work and if Wal-Mart employees will be as good as Apple’s.

The iPhone Dev Team has jailbroken the new iPhone firmware 2.2. As always, they come through and help make the iPhone even better. Below are the necessary downloads, no need to use torrents. Also quick steps on how to do it.

WARNING! DO NOT USE QUICKPWN IF YOU OWN AN IPHONE 3G AND WANT TO UNLOCK YOUR IPHONE 3G. THE NEW FIRMWARE UPDATES THE BASEBAND AND TAKES AWAY THE FUTURE ABILITY TO UNLOCK THE IPHONE 3G! INSTEAD USE PWNAGE TOOL. IF YOU OWN AN IPHONE 2G, YOU ARE FINE.

DOWNLOADS

PWNAGE TOOL 2.2 | OSX
QUICKPWN 2.2 | OSX
QUICKPWN 2.2 | WINDOWS

FIRMWARE/BASEBAND DOWNLOADS

HOW TO JAILBREAK

GOLDEN RULE: If you have a 3G iPhone and want potential soft unlock in the near future do NOT use QuickPwn, and do not use the official ipsw or the iTunes update process without using PwnageTool.

Locked iPhone 3G

If you are using your iPhone with one carrier and have no interest in the possibility of an iPhone 3G unlock in the near future then just restore or upgrade to 2.2 using iTunes and use QuickPwn to Jailbreak and add Cydia and Installer.

Locked iPhone 2G (1st Generation)

Restore your iPhone 2G with iTunes then run QuickPwn to do the magic, ‘nuff said.

iPod Touch 1G (Original iPod Touch)

Update to 2.2 with iTunes and run QuickPwn.

iPod Touch 2G (New iPod Touch)

Sorry, no support at this time.

If you have any questions contact us or leave a comment.

The new iPhone firmware 2.2 has been released. You can update it right now through iTunes. The major updates are to Google Maps, which now has the street level view. Also, the ability to download podcast straight from and to your iPhone, previously iTunes was required. WARNING!!! Do not update if you have a jailbroken or unlocked phone. We will let you know when it is safe to update. Updating will cause you to lose all of your jailbroken applications.

New Features
-Google Maps With Street View
-Fewer dropped calls
-Enhancements to mail
-Ability to download podcast through wifi
-More stable Safari
-And More!

The new Google App is available in the App store. The new update included a new look, easy access to apps and best of all voice search.

Having used the app, i noticed it is fairly easy to use and pretty quick to use. Time will tell if this becomes a really handy feature or not.

If you have used the App store recently, you might have noticed a new increase in advertising apps. What exactly are advertising apps? Well, essentially they are apps that are geared specifically towards something.

For example, the new 007: Quantum of Solace movie has an app. Singer Pink has an app, Zippo the lighter company has an app and so do numerous other artist, movies, companies.

What is the big deal? Really, there isn’t a huge deal, except for the fact that if this continues the App store could be full of advertising apps. Which would then make it harder to find good apps. Not to mention, we live in a world in which we see advertisements wherever we go. It would be nice to assume that when we turn on our iPhone and begin to look for some cool apps, that we wouldn’t run into 10 advertisement apps.

It still needs to be seen what exactly Apple will do about this. I am sure they might want a cut of some of the money they are possibly saving these companies by advertising a free app. Let’s hope they decide soon and hope that we don’t start seeing advertisements for every movie that comes out.

Google continues to make our lives easier with their newest feature. They have created an app that will allow users to say what they want to search and Google will then search it and have the results.

This is perfect for quick searches and just searches in general. The video below is a walk through of the application and shows just how easy it is to do. This will most likely be released shortly and we will have a full review on it.

The iPhone recently has taken the #1 spot for most sold domestic handset. This has been long dominated by the Motorola Razr, which you can get for free practically everywhere.

This isn’t a huge surprise considering the amount of advertising and hype the iPhone has received. Although, it is still a bit surprising that such a new phone can make such great strides in a short time.

I am sure Apple has it’s eyes set on breaking even more records.