I have recently acquired an iPhone 3G and also updated her to much talked about 3.0 firmware. I am using it as I type this very entry. While the iPhone hardware is a marked improvement of the iPod touch and the ol' Compaq IPaq 3850, the new firmware leaves much to be desired especially if it is jailbroken. The 3.0 jailbreak is sketchy at best and I'm now wondering if I should have even bothered upgrading the firmware so soon. Some of the enhancements that have supposedly been made have yet to surface like push notification apps and Google Latitude. This little guy has GPS, so you'd think there would be more powerful apps to take advantage of this, but sadly the best program is a jailbreak-only turn-by-turn app called xGPS. Hopefully some of these apps get updated soon to work correctly on the new firmware. Most of the things I cited in the previous post have been addressed amd I can still play DOOM and Quake on this beast, so all is not lost. Did I mention copy and paste! Woohoo!!!

I am now using a more functional mobile device than the one described in the previous post. I have gone out on a limb and purchased an iPod Touch. I have jailbroken it and have installed quite a few programs. Hopefully Apple will open this thing up to all programs when their SDK is released in February. There are already some pretty decent programs. The only thing I really want on it is a port of OpenOffice. It works pretty well with my Google account. Google has even set up several web apps specifically for the iPhone/Touch. I am most happy with its intuitive interface. it is very easy to use for almost everything.

I have recently aquired an IPAQ3800 series PDA. It originally came with Windows Mobile version 3 and I have subsequently upgraded it to version 4. I am already running numerous programs in its whopping 64 MB of local memory.

I have
2 navigational map viewers
2 infrared remote apps
1 voice command app
1 unit conversion calculator
2 media players
2 web browsers
1 photo editor
1 remote client app
1 guitar tuner
1 metronome

...and
DOOM