We’ve got the iPhone Pwned to firmware 2.0 - Thanks many to the DevTeam. We have been experimenting with various native applications available from the iTunes Appstore. Some of them are brilliant.

Further, We are reviewing native iPhone applications - both paid and free!

If your phone is ZiPhone’d or Pwnd recently to firmware version 1.1.4 , you must have noticed a considerable decrease in the battery life. Here are some working fixes:-

Phone settings;
Brightness: [-o------] Keep to the minimum. 
Auto Brightness: on
Ask to join networks: off
WiFi: Keep it turned off all time. Turn it on only when needed.
Mail send & receive: once a day

Upgrading your bootloader from 3.9 to 4.6 also improves the battery life. You need the BootNeuter iPhone application(Installer Source: http://scape-server.org/iphone) and run it with the following settings. Make sure that you have set the [set auto lock to Never in iPhone settings screen before doing this]

After flashing is successfully over, reboot. Your iPhone will have more battery life now.

Tags: battery life, bootneuter, iphone

To really reboot your iPhone simply sliding the ‘turn off’ slider will not do. Instead :-

1. Go to Home Screen
   Press and Hold Home Button
2. Keep holding and press and hold Lock Button
3. Keep holding Both
4. You will see Slide to Turn Off (Don’t let go to slide, just keep holding)
5. The phone will turn off (in time, but screen will look like it has some white lines)
6. Keep Holding
7. When you see the Apple Logo, you can let go.

This will fix the memory leaks induced by many 3rd party iPhone applications. Do this once in a week and see your iPhone as snappier as ever!

Tags: iphone, really reboot, reboot

iPhone has a storage limit of 1000 SMS. But with the following hack you can bypass that limit:-

1. Add http://iphone.totalmatrix.net as a source in Installer App.

2. You shall find the new App under Tweaks (1.1.1) and is called “No SMS Limit”.

Tags: hack, iphone, limit, SMS, storage

1. EDITGRID iPhone Edition

The best spreadsheet view on the iPhone in my opinion. It works solid even on an EDGE connection. EDITGRID works better than the Google Docs and iZoho for now.

2. Hahlo Twittering Client

Helps you post tweets from your iPhone. Better than the Twitter’s own mobile client. Wish if it worked with Jaiku and Tumblr too.

3. Facebook iPhone Client

4. Digg iPhone Client

5. Google iPhone Homepage

6. VTap YouTube and Media Client
I like this better than the default YouTube Player.

7. ToodleDo - ToDo List Manager
You can actually use this WebApp!

8. RememberTheMilk - ToDo List Manager
Slighly slower on performance. But well done with a slick search option.

9. OneTrip - Handy Shopper on iPhone !

Colorful but very functional

10. MyBudge - Expense Tracker on iPhone

Good enough as a simple expense tracker.