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Proving once again that sometimes what seems like the most complicated way of doing something can be the simplest and most effective, a few brilliant engineers with Perceptive Development have successfully connected an infrared keyboard with an iPhone without jailbreaking the device! Most impressively of all, they did it for less than $20 using the headphone port. (Videos after the break.)

On August 14th, Wired.com asked iPhone 3G users around the world to test their network speed at their location and submit it so they could document network speeds around the world? Well, since then they've gathered information contributed by over 2,600 participants around the world, and they just finished compiling their findings.

Apple's iPhone 3G ads tout the new iPhone 3G as being fast, but just how fast is it? The ads make it seem a little utopian, showing it loading webpages almost instantaneously. However, while almost everyone agrees 3G is an improvement, it's not nearly that fast in real life. Secondly, speeds differ for everyone. So, the only real way to find out how fast the iPhone 3G is is to ask people who use it in your area, and that's exactly what Wired is doing.