A Day with iPhone 2.0
July 29th, 2008
Yes, I finally used the latest Pwnage Tool, made the custom firmware, and upgraded my iPhone’s firmware to 2.0. On the last post I made about this, I wasn’t too sure about upgrading since the lack of applications I need that are compatible with the new firmware. Well, the iPhone/iPod Touch community is apparently swift as a fox when it gets to this point, it’s only a week after I wrote the last post, and everything I mainly need is covered. Right now the only thing that I’m missing is probably the iSMS, which in functionality, works better than iPhone’s own SMS application.
So the upgrade actually went very well and smooth for my iPhone. It takes no more than 15-20 minutes for the initial custom firmware creation and restoration, and it takes another one hour or two to get all the settings back to my iPhone as I see fit, and testing the whole thing to make sure that it works as it should. Disabling the keyboard’s auto-correction was also easy enough and quite non-destructive.
One of the most interesting appeal that made me eager to do the upgrade is the now-native applications available in AppStore. And those are really really great. Most of the essential things that I need, such as Twitterrific, WordPress, NetNewsWire, Palringo, or Facebook, come as free applications. And the only thing I actually bought so far is Things, which hopefully in the future, connects and syncs with the desktop version that I use daily. I also found BookReader (in Cydia), which is a barebone version of Books.app, and completely supports HTML files that I used for the Alkitab. Although it is extremely bare bone, I think it would do justice for now, and I will have the instructions updated on that one.
So, bottom line, if there are still applications that you really do need and irreplaceable, I suggest that you keep refraining yourself from upgrading to 2.0. But as for me and a day with the iPhone 2.0, I must admit that I’m excited on what lies ahead.