I was due and upgrade from O2, so i jumped at this chance and went to get my brand new, shiny, iPhone 3GS, 16Gb in white. I don’t know what i did with a black 8Gb 3G all this time. The white one is just something else… its so much more!! Love it. Now if only i actually had some time to play with it?!! Grrrr!

Everything with my new iPhone was going swimmingly, right up until i realised that there wasn’t a jailbreak for the firmware version 3.1.3 yet! It was at that point that i lost a little bit of my excitement for my 3GS :( Definitely not happy about having to use the standard iPhone interface. Its not ugly, not by a long way, but i need my custom theme/icons back and fast. Hopefully the awesome guys over at iPhone Dev Blog will have a working jailbreak very soon.

There really isn’t any other reason for me to jailbreak my iPhone apart from themes and icons now that i’ve got a 3GS. The only reasons that i’ve previously jailbroken were to install a video camera for my 3G, which of course the 3GS has as standard now (thank god), A YouTube video downloader so that i could watch some video’s without having to wait for it to stream everytime and finally, an advanced ‘Settings’ app which allowed for certain icons to be hidden from the springboard amongst other functionality, which again, was only so that i could keep my springboard looking clean and tidy.

I mean standard apps such as ‘Stocks’, ‘Compass’ and ‘Voice Memo’s’ are just cluttering up my springboard… i don’t want them on my iPhone, i’ve used them all once, just to see what they’re about, and then found myself looking for the ‘x’ in the top left of the icon to try and delete it. With the apps that i’ve just listed, this can’t happen as standard, so using my jailbroken 3G, i used to just hide them and that’d be it. A nice, clean, tidy and perfectly happy iPhone…. Never again, or not for the time being at least, will i be able to have my sexy icons and third party apps back… i’ll have to wait until a crash has been found by the iPhone Dev Guys, within the new firmware before i can jailbreak again.

Have a look at these screenshots below. The one one the left is my perfectly jailbroken 3G and the one on the right is my standard 3GS… Now which one looks better?

Obviously there are some app differences on the homescreen but the main difference is the icons and the general look and feel of my iPhone. I usually love Apple and their icons, but i think they really could have allowed for the customisation side of the iPhone. One of the best things about a Mac is how good icons look on your desktop and within Finder. I think that Apple have definatly missed an opportunity with not allowing for certain user customisation. Its a bit annoying to say the least.

That said, i still love the iPhone. I think as a piece of hardware, its absolutely stunning and the 3GS is amazing to have.

Anyone want to recommend me any new apps out recently?