To Jailbreak or not to Jailbreak? That is the question a lot of iPhone users are asking. Charlie Mallow reviewed Inspell by BigBoss & Planet-iPhones

Before you walk down dark alleys and hide in shadows, the first thing you need to do is ask yourself if it’s worth the trouble. Are there applications and features that you need to use and can’t get by standard practices? This question is answered by the need for one silver bullet app or function that an individual just doesn’t want to live without. I have found my silver bullet App.

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With all the hoopla about the iPhone 3GS’s speed, what about its little non-cellular brother, the touch? I took a second-generation touch, (reportedly sporting a 533-MHz ARM processor, versus the 3GS’s 600-MHz chip).

I ran the touch through a battery of performance tests before and after the OS upgrade from 2.2 to 3.0, and compared the results with those for the iPhone 3G and 3GS.

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iPhone owners have begun filling forums with grumbles that Apple’s latest firmware causes Google Maps to become more than a little inaccurate.

The “GPS and Maps not working after 3.0 upgrade” thread on Apple’s own Discussions website is filled with comments from angry iPhone owners that the firmware update causes the bundled Google application to spit out current location results anywhere between a few hundred meters and four miles off course.

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Facebook is preparing an update to its popular iPhone app, with several features designed to take advantage of the latest firmware, according to Inside Facebook. Facebook 3.0 integrates a new menu selection for news feeds, along with a section for organizing events or sending RSVPs. Users can create new photo albums, view profile picture albums or upload content, while image viewing supports zoom.

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Now that the iPhone OS 3.0 firmware has added stereo Bluetooth functionality to the Apple iPhone, we thought it would be a good idea to revisit stereo Bluetooth and what it promises.

Stereo Bluetooth, or A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile), is essentially a Bluetooth profile that lets you stream music from one device to another without the use of wires. The technology has been around for years, and almost all music phones have this feature.

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The Quest for the Golden Orchid begins

It’s live, although as of writing it’s not live in the UK. [Full disclosure alert: originally this bit said it was only live in the US, but since reader t7gger claims it’s available in Switzerland that’s clearly poppycock.]

[Further poppycock alert: except it IS available in the UK, if you click the ‘buy it!’ link at the bottom of this page. Ignore me - it’s late.]

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The non-availability of the MMS feature for 1st generation iPhone (iPhone 2G) was probably one of the most disappointing news for iPhone 2G users that was announced at the WWDC 2009 Keynote address.

In fact, the MMS feature is not available currently to even iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in the US. Some folks had figured out a way to enable MMS on iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.

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The first day the Apple iPhone 3G S went on sale was the biggest sales day ever for AT&T, according to an internal memo the company sent to employees. The message has been published in various blogs.

That’s right iPhone Day 2009 beat out the two previous iPhone launch days, as well as surpassed traditionally heavy retail sales days such as Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, and December 26th, the day after Christmas.

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Apple last week revised a support document on iPhone temperature to include the iPhone 3GS. The June 25th document cautions iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users to operate their handsets within acceptable temperatures. Specially, it makes the following recommendations.

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mAdvNote for iPhone is a multi-functional note app, belonging to the category of Productivity. It is developed by Mcleaner Team, a very professional team dedicated to iphone apps.

mAdvNote allows you to use picture, text, voice, and doodle, or any combination thereof, to create a single note file. You can not only type out a quick note and save it, but also do more sophisticated things. With each new note you create, you have the option of taking a picture, writing a note as text,drawing out a concept,and recording a note. Inserting pictures and voice messages to go with captions is really a huge breakthrough. Also you can move up or down the picture and the text and the voice. It is intuitive and user-friendly and has a search option for finding saved notes.

What can you do with mAdvNote?

—Write text notes
—Record voice messages
—Sketch your ideas with a finger
—Take photos with comments instantly
—Various ways of taking note. You can make a note with text and graphics integrated,such as text+photo,text+record+skeching,sketching+photo+record+text,etc.
—The order of text/photo/record/skecthing can be changed randomly
—Find notes instantly with search,and sort by tag or date features

You can download it at http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=314537471&mt=8, with the price of 1.99$.

Also you can try out mAdvNote Lite, which is free but only allows you to create 3 notes.