After much waiting and anticipation and a lot of guess work from folks who had access to 2.2 beta, iPhone firmware update 2.2 is here via iTunes.
Confirming rumors of Apple’s 2.2 firmware release of today, it was in fact made available last night!
Here are some of the new things iPhone 2.2 firmware brings:
iPhone 2.2 Software Update
This update contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following:

Enhancements to Maps

Google Street View
public transit and walking directions
display address of dropped pins
share location via email

Enhancements to Mail

resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
improved …

Google’s Mobile Blog is reporting that Google has rolled out an iPhone friendly search results page.
Google Search results are not dumbed down or anything. It’s just better laid out and optimized for viewing in iPhone or iPod Touch. This will help us from having to scroll side to side to see the whole result.
One of the best examples of this optimization would be the Local Search results in Google. It neatly lays out the phone number for the business and a link to get directions prominently. (see pic)

The phone number …

Flickr has to be one of the most used web services for a iPhone user. We all take pictures with our iPhones and upload them using various apps like Pixup to Flickr. But, browsing Flickr itself with our iPhone wasn’t that great.
Now, Flickr has unveiled its iPhone-optimized mobile site - m.flickr.com. It’s fabulous. Most used links are at the top.You can see Activity, your sets, contacts, photostream, etc. You can view a picture and leave comments.

But, you don’t get the Uploadr, Organizr and Map that you get in the Flickr …

I am sure you’ve probably heard that Quickpwn 2.1 for Windows has been released by the dev team. High five to them for making the jailbreak process easier than ever that even your grandma can do it. If your grandma, has an iPhone that will be some picture you should share it with us.

When Skype hits iPhone, it will certainly be one of the popular app downloads for sure.

DropBox is an innovative file synchronization service that seamlessly keeps the assigned folder between computers in sync. You can even get to your files from anywhere via a browser interface. You can read our DropBox Review here.
Dropbox has also got an improved iPhone optimized interface to get to your files/pictures on your Windows,Mac or Linux desktops right from your iPhone.

Dropbox was on closed beta so far and they have just launched publicly! You can go ahead and sign for a free account (2GB space). There will be premium accounts with …

Now, you can stay connected with your GTalk buddies on the go with your iPhone with the Special GTalk version for iPhone.
Just head over to www.google.com/talk in your iPhone browser. Sign in with your Google account and you can start chatting, set your status message, etc. Since, this runs in your Safari browser, the application has to stay open to receive chat messages. But, as long as you stay in the chat window, you can search for contacts and manage multiple conversations.
Even though the functionality is limited, but it could …