I really like the 3G. We’re dealing with the short battery life by switching off the 3G radio when we’re in a wi-fi area and putting the phone on standby more often, and by making sure we have chargers in the car, at work, and at home.
The AppStore has some very nice applications, but we miss a lot of the apps we had on our jailbroken original iPhones. I had expected to see more of the early jailbroken applications on the AppStore, but realized that many of them were developed by people who don’t have Macs; therefore, they can’t develop applications compatible with the official iPhone SDK.
I have also read that the changes that Apple made to the firmware in order to implement the ability for the iPhone to run AppStore applications will prevent many of the applications written for jailbroken iPhones from working right on the iPhone 3G.
What this probably means for the short term is that even though the non-Apple and somewhat renegade "iPhone Development Team" have already demonstrated a jailbroken iPhone 3G, not many of the existing third-party, non-AppStore applications will run correctly on the new 2.0 firmware.
I really hope that this gets remedied soon as I miss these applications:
Twinkle - an incredible Twitter front end. Twitteriffic on the AppStore is a great start, but not nearly as complete.
THTouch - Texas Hold-em. NICE
Chuzzle - a Bejeweled-like game, but not a Bejeweled clone. The Mrs. plays this a lot.
Lexitron - Text Twist for the iPhone. This game was very frustrating at times since the author would often allow non-words while disallowing real words.
Five Dice - Yahtzee for the iPhone
Snapture - This adds a lot of features to the iPhone camera that you’d expect from a nice cell-phone camera
I wonder if it’s too much trouble for Apple to create a development toolkit for developers who have not migrated to a Mac.
I really like the 3G. We’re dealing with the short battery life by switching off the 3G radio when we’re in a wi-fi area and putting the phone on standby more often, and by making sure we have chargers in the car, at work, and at home.
The AppStore has some very nice applications, but we miss a lot of the apps we had on our jailbroken original iPhones. I had expected to see more of the early jailbroken applications on the AppStore, but realized that many of them were developed by people who don’t have Macs; therefore, they can’t develop applications compatible with the official iPhone SDK.
I have also read that the changes that Apple made to the firmware in order to implement the ability for the iPhone to run AppStore applications will prevent many of the applications written for jailbroken iPhones from working right on the iPhone 3G.
What this probably means for the short term is that even though the non-Apple and somewhat renegade "iPhone Development Team" have already demonstrated a jailbroken iPhone 3G, not many of the existing third-party, non-AppStore applications will run correctly on the new 2.0 firmware.
I really hope that this gets remedied soon as I miss these applications:
Twinkle - an incredible Twitter front end. Twitterer on the AppStore is a great start, but not nearly as complete.
THTouch - Texas Hold-em. NICE
Chuzzle - a Bejeweled-like game, but not a Bejeweled clone. The Mrs. plays this a lot.
Lexitron - Text Twist for the iPhone. This game was very frustrating at times since the author would often allow non-words while disallowing real words.
Five Dice - Yahtzee for the iPhone
Snapture - This adds a lot of features to the iPhone camera that you’d expect from a nice cell-phone camera
I wonder if it’s too much trouble for Apple to create a development toolkit for developers who have not migrated to a Mac.
Ok, Activation worked… on my laptop with my AT&T 3G data card (Option GT 3.6Max) connected to the Internet and iPhone 3G connected.
I’ve loaded a several AppStore applications (mostly free) and notice that the iPhone 3G becomes unstable requiring a reboot, or reboots spontaneously even more often than my original iPhone running 1.1.4 firmware.
More to come.
Oh, I got a MARWARE Sportsuit at the Apple store… It’s going back because it comes with a glossy, clear plastic screen cover sewn into the case and it doesn’t stay flat on the iPhone screen, rendering it very for me to type accurately as the film throws off the touch reading. Other than that, I do like it.
I considered cutting the screen cover out (I already put the Apple screen protector on the new iPhone), but why risk the $35? I’ll see what else Apple has.
The AT&T store was cool and people were very nice and accomodating. Overall we were in line for just over two hours and walked out with two 8GB iPhone 3Gs. I can live with 8GB and the money saved isn’t a lot in the long run, but could be better used on other things right now.
I was in a rush to get to work, so Julie, my lovely geek-in-training, jumped right in to getting hers activated. The woman who never dreamed she would get the use out of an iPhone to justify its cost or that she would even understand most of it only had to call me once with a question about pulling the SIM from the old (!?!?) iPhone.
I finally pulled mine out at work to start the activation and got a call from Julie saying iTunes won’t activate the phone. This gels with the news reports I am seeing that the activation servers are overloaded. Drat!
So here I sit with my iPhone 3G connected to my laptop, iTunes running, regularly retrying the activation.
So here we are, my wife and I, waiting in line for the new iPhone 3G. Note sure why… we both have iPhones, jailbroken and pimped out, and we know we will lose our “pretties”. Our kids have dibs on the current phones.
Last count was 33 / 12 / 12 (that’s 33 8GB, 12 16GB White, 12 16GB Black), so we might get one.
