Patience is a virtue. This is the message the iphone-dev team wishes to impart to all of the expectant iPhone 3G users awaiting their upcoming jailbreaking tool. In our full article, you can check out the latest progress report from the dev team regarding their status in hacking the newly released Apple gadget. Click on the "read more" link below and take a look at the full story.

Heads up, iPhone and iPod Touch users! The respective firmware 2.0 updates for your Apple gadgets are now officially live and available through iTunes. Before you connect and upgrade, though, check out the full article for more info on these updates.

Enjoying the quirky game physics of Apple iPhone homebrew developer r4m0n's homebrew, iPhysics? Then good news, as he's rolled out another version for us to enjoy. This one sports a very thin (but very important) changelog, so you'd do well to check it out and upgrade if you want to keep on playing with iPhysics with your upgraded iPhone. More on the full article.

Download: iPhysics v1.1

Steve Jobs has recently stated that Apple will be cracking down on unlocked iPhones. Apparently, the method they have chosen to do so is through firmware updates they plan on releasing for iPhones.

The group of hackers (iPhone Dev Team) who developed the unlocker have responded to this statement through a representative saying that they will be releasing a tool that will restore the unit's nck counter, seczones, and even restore the phone to factory settings.

In the meantime, they told the rest of the community that they shouldn't upgrade their firmware when the update comes out. Instead they ask unlocked iPhone owners to patiently wait for the next version of the crack to avoid breaking their mobiles. In the same statement, they also spoke about how Apple is allegedly misinforming their customers:

Apple now announces that the next firmware update, expected later this week, will possibly break the handset of all of us free users in the World. It speaks of "damage" done to the firmware and "unauthorized access" to our own property, The removal of those firmware problems, which were built in in favor for AT&T, does not cause "damage" as they want to make us believe.

So the battle between the corporations and hackers continue. The community has already been polarized with some siding with Apple and others with the iPhone Dev Team. We'll keep you guys updated on this as more news comes out.

iPod owners may want to hear out this interesting information regarding their players. Apple is apparently planning to release a new firmware update which will, among other things, give your iPod the same Cover Flow view under use on iTunes. You don't have to imagine how that'll look, as we've picked up this video via Gizmodo to demonstrate the feature.

Of course, we advise the hopefuls to keep a stiff upper lip until new info arises - along with more details on what else this update does in light of the recent Vista fix that was released.