Google Earth for iPhone

Google has just unveiled a new iteration of Google Earth, this time to run as an mapping application on the Apple iPhone. Users have access to Panoramio's 8 million photographs, and the phone's accelerometer allows you to tilt the phone and get a better view of mountainous terrain, although New York Times reporter Frederic Lardinois found this function a little distracting: "Once you hand your phone to somebody else, the screen will inevitably tilt and move the focus, which can be quite annoying." But even without the presence of street names in the app, Lardinois thinks it's a pretty neat trick. Here's Google's introduction to the new app:

Meanwhile, the G1 phone apps keep rolling out as well, and PC Magazine has a review of some of the latest ways to pimp your ride. Bonsai Blast is your basic shoot-a-bunch-of-floating-bubbles-for-no-apparent-reason video game. iSkoot syncs you up with your Skype account. Locale adjusts your phone to certain environmental settings, turning off your Wi-Fi if your battery gets too low, for example. MySpace Mobile does what you think it does, and so does Pac-Man. Shazam's perhaps the coolest app so far; if you have a tune stuck in your head, but can't remember what it is, just hum it into the G1's microphone, and Shazam will find the song for you, any YouTube videos associated with the song, the artist's MySpace page, and the Amazon Web site. Just in case you want to buy it.