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Good news Google lovers - Google Earth will soon be is available on the iPhone! Via iPhone Atlas via news.com via Stephen Shankland:

The free software started becoming available through Apple's App store on Sunday...

I tried the application late last week and was impressed how well the iPhone version kept up with the performance, features, and usability of Google Earth for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux--at least, while using a Wi-Fi network connection. For example, your view of the world starts looking straight down, but you can tilt the view so terrain contours are visible, and generating that variable perspective takes some significant processing.

What's most interesting to me, though, is that the iPhone's multitouch screen actually made using the application easier than the PC versions.

Google Earth for iPhone also includes a small Webkit-based browser to show the specific information users click on. Apparently the app is already released in the Australian iTunes store, and will follow suit in other nations "shortly." I'd guess within a few hours. Update: here's the iTunes link to Google Earth.