iPhone 3GS

Differences from the iPod Touch:

• GSM/UMTS
• Bluetooth
• Camera (3MPixel)
• GPS/A-GPS
• faster: ARM Cortex-A8 833 MHz underclocked to 600 MHz, 256 MB DRAM, PowerVR SGX GPU
• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating on the screen
• proximity sensor
• it comes with Baseband 3.0.
• RedSn0w cannot jailbreak the 3GS, so use Purplera1n instead!

BTW, I found it rather stupid that you need iTunes to activate (“unbrick”) your iPhone… What if I don’t have a computer?

Software installed from Apple Store: Skype, Facebook, Twitterific, Sudoku (gratuite), Wikiamo, Google App, Fring, Google Earth, WorldWiki, Dictionary, WordRef (Ita-Eng) (€0.79), WordRef (De-Eng) (€0.79), Conversions, iSeismo, Backgrounds, Shazam, Stanza

(Regarding Wikiamo, there’s also en.m.wikipedia.org (English only) and the Wikipedia app (again, English only))

Software installed from Cydia: Winterboard, SBSettings, OpenSSH, Five Icon Dock, MxTube, GRiS, Docs

Initial setup:

1. Go through everything in the settings and set it up.
2. Setup your icons with some logic, so that you can easily find them
3. Push sync with Google gmail, contacts and calendar (as described here). Note that by default it syncs only your default calendar; you need to visit m.google.com/sync in MobileSafari, set your language to English, to enable additional calendars syncing.
4. Login to Skype, Facebook, Twitterific
5. Setup your bluetooth earphone
6. Ssh into the phone using default username (mobile) and password (alpine) and change the password.
7. While still in ssh, make some of the customizations I described here

Repositories added to Cydia: bigboss, hack&dev, ispazio, modmyi, ste packaging, telesphoreo, zodttd (in italics those not installed by default)