The iPod Touch can finally join its brother, the iPhone 3G, in offering Google Street View. You’ll have to jailbreak your Touch in order to use it, however. Click here for step by step instructions so you can creepily eye the house your ex-girlfriend used to live at. Apple offers no word on when and if the iPod Touch will receive a legitimate use of Google Street View. It probably won’t be long considering the recent iPhone firmware 2.2 upgrade featured legit functionality.

Also, the video below highlights another coup for the iPod Touch. The 2G Touch is pitted against an original Touch, an original iPhone and a 3G iPhone in a game of TouchSport Tennis. It handily beats all three in load times. Not bad, little guy.

The latest iPhone firmware update is here and available for download. If you need any convincing before you snap it up, the update includes a Google Street View application and the ability to download Podcasts straight to the iPhone.

On the Street View front, all the bells and whistles are here. The public transit and walking directions are all in place.

Additionally, there were some bug fixes, Safari enhancements and the ability to toggle auto-text correction. The Podcast downloads have been reported to work flawlessly, as well. Get ye to the iTunes store and make your iPhone a little bit better.

Here are some post-update photos to get you excited, as if you needed anything more:

Now we can stalk perfect strangers, not just facebook friends! If you’ve google mapped anything lately you may have noticed a new feature on the webpage known as “Street View”. It’s a function that lets people actually see a 360 degree high-res view as if they were standing at that location. The option is currently limited to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York but it already appears to be brewing up quite a bit of controversy.

Some ‘street views’ show a man picking his nose, others of people entering strip clubs, college students sunbathing, going about their daily routines. Many say that this pushes the boundaries of privacy. Others argue that negative images, such as the one of protesters outside an abortion clinic in Florida, may create safety issues for the general public.

Google has already instated measures that allow people to request the removal of an image. But is that too little? Where will they draw the line between what is legal to do and what is right to do? In the meantime while they figure it out, I’m looking forward to taking a photo tour of NYC.