The Apple iPhone OS and iPod Touch OS 3.1.2 are now available for download.

iPhone OS 3.1.2 for iPhone contains the following bug fixes and improvements:

• Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep.
• Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart.
• Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming.

The updated firmware 3.1.2 for iPod touch contains the following bug fixes and enhancements:

• Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPod touch to not wake from sleep.
• Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming.

The iPhone Dev Team warns those with jailbroken and unlocked iPhones to avoid the new upgrade, until they can crack it.

The 3.1.2 updates AT&T’s carrier settings file for iPhone customers in the United States, and updates the carrier settings to version 5.6.

Here are the direct download links:

iPhone EDGE (Original/Classic): iPhone1, 1_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw
iPhone 3G: iPhone1, 2_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw
iPhone 3GS: iPhone2, 1_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw

iPod Touch 1G: iPod1, 1_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw
iPod Touch 2G: iPod2, 1_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw
iPod Touch 3G: iPod3, 1_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw

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.

Both QuickPwn and PwnageTool have been updated to support the recent iPhone 2.2 firmware upgrade. They sure do work at breakneck speeds to allow you to jailbreak your beloved iPhones. The firmware upgrade was just released less than 72 hours ago. Color me impressed.

Below is a video of what sounds like an 8-year old kid showing us how to install the programs into the new firmware upgrade. Kids learn just as fast as hackers these days.

Google, fresh on the heels of Android’s recent RC29 update, has already slipped out another update. The RC30 update exists to help fix a recent jailbreaking issue with the Android device. The company says they are "currently working with our partners to push the fix out and updating the open source code base to reflect these changes."

According to the company, the update should be in everybody’s hands within the next three or four days. Google offers no word on if the update includes any other functions.

As a former owner of an iPhone, I do recognize it as a beautiful and elegant device but with LOTS of limitations. For me personally, I don’t really "dig" the touchscreen keyboard. Sure it works OK, but you will never be as fast with a virtual keyboard than a physical keyboard. But hackers have figured out a way to accomplish what Steve Jobs and Apple have failed to produce, an external keyboard for the iPhone.

By jailbreaking a 3G iPhone and installing some Ruby code, the iPhone will begin to recognize an old Palm external keyboard. This is perhaps what I miss most of the Palm Treo, all the "extras" available for it.

I don’t understand why Apple won’t produce an external bluetooth keyboard for the iPhone to simply please the masses who hate typing on a virtual keyboard. Am I alone in this?