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I got my Google Voice invite a couple weeks ago. Since then, I’ve had some time to play with it. To make matters more interesting, there was a Google Mobile iPhone app released! To make things even more interesting, Apple yanked the app from the App Store (apparently at AT&T’s request). And to make things even more interesting, the developer re-released the app via Cydia (the application installer for jailbroken iPhones)! I’m happy to have GV Mobile on my jailbroken iPhone right now so read on for my thoughts about the Google Voice service as well as the experience on the iPhone.

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Thanks to Tech Report for the update. DigiTimes reports that Intel is gearing up to release up to seven Arrandale CPUs in the first quarter of 2010. The great news is that these chips are coming – the bad news is that they’re not coming until 1Q10. Initially, there were rumors that these CPUs would squeak into 2009. Apple is expected to use these chips in their MacBook & MacBook Pro line.

These chips are based on Intel’s newer, smaller 34nm build process. Currently, Intel’s Penryn Core 2 Duo chips use a 45nm build process. The smaller process should yield lower power usage and less heat output. Furthermore, these chips have integrated graphics processors. It will be interesting to see what Apple does with the integrated graphics chip, given the interesting legal battles between Intel and nVidia. Theses future-MacBook CPUs will be launced at 2.4, 2.53, and 2.66ghz. I’m holding off upgrading my MacBook Pro until I can get one with these CPUs.

The Palm Pre was released with the ability to sync with iTunes. It did so by pretending to be an iPod. Apple released iTunes 8.2.1, and the Palm Pre could no longer sync with it. Last night, Palm released a WebOS 1.1 update. Now iTunes syncing is back.

Okay so I really don’t want to delve into what is morally or legally right here. I don’t really care. I just don’t understand what Palm is trying to do.

iTunes now sells only DRM-free music. Therefore, any of the music in iTunes can be put on any device. Furthermore, the MP3 / AAC files are organized neatly into a folder structure and they have tags integrated in all the files with track information. Why doesn’t Palm just do what Nokia did and create a little media sync application. Let the user use iTunes, but let them sync their music in a completely legal, non-workaroundy way. This would let users put their music on the device, would keep Apple from filing any lawsuits (and with all those former iPod engineers on the Palm team now, I don’t think that’s far-fetched), and everyone would be happy. Just my 2 cents.

Apple released their 3Q09 Quarterly results just now. I’m not going to post any of the boring press release details. You can read that here. However, I’m listening to their conference call right now, and I’ll post any interesting tidbits below. Click to continue reading!

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The iPhone OS 3.0 software is really great, and it’s ALMOST good enough to be enterprise ready. You would think that after a couple years, Apple could get this right. Here are a couple issues I have. If I accept an exchange calendar invite on my phone, the event appears on my iPhone calendar, but not in my entourage calendar. That’s bad. Conversely, if I accept an event in Entourage, it pretty much instantly appears on my iPhone. They need to fix this.

Additionally, I use iCal for my personal calendaring and Exchange for my work calendaring. If I create a new event on my iPhone, it does not let me select which calendar to put the event on. It automatically assumes I want it on my exchange calendar (which of course, does not get sync’d back to entourage). So if I’m going to a baseball game on Saturday, I can’t add that to my personal calendar since the iPhone just assumes I want that on my work calendar, and even after I put it on my calendar, it doesn’t actually get sync’d back to my desktop client. Sheesh.

ultrasn0w is here! Time to unlock that iPhone 3G! The process is extremely simple.

1. Update your iPhone 3G to OS 3.0
2. Use PwnageTool to Jailbreak it and install Cydia
3. Add repo666.ultrasn0w.com to Cydia
4. Install ultrasn0w
5. Reboot

Enjoy! If you are a T-Mobile USA user, be sure to turn off 3G before updating!

The iPhone Dev Team has been hard at work since the release of the iPhone / iPod Touch 3.0 software update. The jailbreak for all devices except the iPod Touch 2G was released yesterday. Today redsn0w, the iPod Touch 2G jailbreak, was released! Now we’re just waiting for ultrasn0w, the iPhone 3G OS 3.0 unlock. Thanks, Dev Team!

Thanks, Dev Team! The jailbreak for the iPhone 3G OS 3.0 is now out. Go get the goodness here! Note: I’m not yet upgrading my iPhone 3G. I’m upgrading to the iPhone 3G S so this phone will be given to my brother, a T-Mobile user. For it to work on T-Mobile, we need the unlock (ultrasn0w) to be released. Word is that this will be released in the very near future! I will detail the whole unlocking process here on the site when it’s released.

Wow! Apple was quick to respond to ATT’s pricing announcement earlier today! I’ve already got my refund coming . NICE!

If you ordered an iPhone 3G S right after the keynote, like I did, chances are it has already shipped. Many of the UPS tracking numbers said to expect delivery on June 17, a full two days before the expected release date of June 19. Don’t get your hopes up, though! Logging into UPS.com this morning shows the above pic. Looks like Apple is putting a hold on delivery of these phones until the 19th.