Apple’s announcement of its official 3.0 firmware release for the iPhone and iTouch line of products was met with a mixed dose of excitement and unhappiness: Some welcomed long-awaited features like copy-and-paste functionality and stereo Bluetooth, while others decried that Apple just hasn’t done enough to stay competitive against the Androids and Blackberries of the mobile world. Here’s looking at you, background-running functionality.
Regardless of your beliefs about the success or failure of the 3.0 firmware, you don’t have to wait until this summer to try out all the new features. That’s because a number — if not a majority — of these added benefits are already available via third-party and Apple Store applications. Don’t believe us? Jailbreak your iPhone and check out our list:
A note about jailbreaking: Jailbreaking your iPhone can allow it to do many things that the built-in software, and software distributed through the App Store, can’t yet do. But keep in mind that jailbreaking will technically void your warranty, is a legal gray area as of this writing, and could potentially result in other problems, so jailbreak at your own risk.
