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Apple announces the 3g iPhone

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If you still haven’t heard, Apple announces the second version of the iPhone. It now has the ability to use the 3G network and GPS. The iPhone 2.0 was demoed during WWDC 2008 and looked great. They made it easy for any developer to create applications that ran on the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

I was excited to hear about the 3G version a couple of months ago but became disappointed after the announcement. Here are my reasons:

  • Hooray for 3G and GPS, yet it still has a 2MP camera?
  • Where’s the video support? You can capture pictures but no video?
  • Still no MMS support. Of course you can email people, but what about people who don’t have email support on their phones? They can’t respond to your email until they get to a machine with internet access?
  • AT&T is increasing the data plan an additional $10 per month.
  • No 32GB iPhone? I already have a 16GB iPod touch. With over 40GB of music, it just won’t do. I don’t like creating playlists after playlists to make it fit in 16GB. If I get the 16GB iPhone and months later Apple releases the 32GB version, what do I do then? I’ll be on a 2 year contract.
One good news is AT&T and Apple will now do in-store activations. There will no longer be activation via iTunes. This will help prevent (not eliminate) people from buying and unlocking the iPhones. This will also decrease people from buying many iPhones and reselling them on eBay for $100s more. We’ll see as July 11 draws nearer whether or not I will buy one. I know Abby wants one and my contract with T-Mobile expires days before that.

New iJailbreak v3.0b

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iJailbreak.com recently released a new version of iJailbreak for the iPod Touch. This now includes the iPhone apps (Mail, Notes, Stocks, Weather, and Maps. I did an upgrade from the previous version of iJailbreak via Installer app on the Touch. It went well except the iPhone apps, except Weather crashed every time I accessed it. So I ended up restoring my iPod and reinstalling the new version of iJailbreak. Now the iPhone apps work. The Maps is great.

Buying music on iTunes using my iPod Touch

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You can purchase music using the iTunes installed on the Touch. I wanted to try this out but didn’t want to spend any money or credits on the experiment. So I decided to get the current free Single of the Week. Unfortunately, there is no display on the Touch for this, unlike in iTunes on my Mac. You have search for it. Also, you can’t display the shopping cart or any other things I was accustomed to seeing on the desktop version of iTunes. What you will see on the Touch is the top songs from each genre or hot singles. I didn’t really like that since I don’t usually pay attention to it. But the search feature is great. As you type the search criteria, you will be seeing results. The results will lessen as you type more letters.

The shopping cart on the Touch is different from the shopping cart on the iTunes on your desktop. So you will not see items you have in the shopping cart unless it was added using the Touch. This was interesting since the account you’re using is the same for both Touch and iTunes desktop.

So I purchased the free song. The download was fast, as fast as my desktop – I was using my wifi network at home so there shouldn’t be a big difference, if any. Once done, it added a new playlist labeled Purchased just as it does on the desktop. Then I synced it to my desktop. It automatically saved a copy on my desktop and it created a new playlist labeled Purchased on win’s iPod Touch. Very convenient process. Now I can buy music on my Touch as long as there’s a wifi signal and not have to worry about syncing issues with my desktop.

My iPod Touch has been jailbroken

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Using iJailbreak I am now able to install 3rd party applications on my iPod Touch. The hack is based on niacin and dre’s hack for the iPhone which uses an exploit found in the Safari browser. I nervously did it this morning and 10 minutes later I was able to download a long lists of free 3rd party applications. Now I just gotta figure out how to get ssh and sftp on there so I can get some NES roms installed. Here’s some pics I took.