So the hacking community led you to a free or fee-based unlock of your iPhone, you are zipping along fine with your new carrier, and then you hear the news that if your iPhone is unlocked the next iPhone firmware update could leave your phone busted. What do you do?

The same thing any logical person would, find a way to reverse the unlock and go back and pay your penance and ask for re-admittance into the church of AT&T. Well luckily for you, there are far more skilled people out there to help you cover your Apple/AT&T co-branded ass.

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So you have a Palm, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry smartphone and want to switch to an iPhone, MarkSpace is releasing a new software product to make it that much easier. It will ship Q4 this year and is called The Missing Sync.

What it does is transfer lots of data from one of those supported devices to your iPhone. The data that is transfers are things such as the contacts list, tasks, events, photos, and other stuff.

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So some guy who is apparently a coding monkey, but highly evolved, has finally gotten his hands on an iPod Touch, granted it has a busted screen, but he is really just using it to dump all the firmware and all that good stuff. The gentleman’s name is “Martyn” and he traded some poor lady who had a broken iPod Touch that wasn’t covered under the warranty for a working Nano.

Anyways, he is dumping all the data now. It should be done by this morning, and then he will need some time to translate all that good stuff into something he, and presumably others, can work with.

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There’s a growing discussiontaking place over at jkOnTheRun after James Kendrick voiced his concerns with the way the ultra-mobile sector is progressing and laid out his must-haves for a successful companion device.  So why the relevence to MY iTablet?  Well, James’ conclusion is that it’s up to Apple to produce this mythical PDA-cum-UMPC-cum-perfection, since they’re the only major company with control over both the hardware and software.

It’s a common theme, in that sense, but the argument is laid out well and particularly weighted to this sector of device.  As James describes, user expectations of an ultra-portable are far greater than for perhaps any other type of computer - delays in responsiveness that most will simply put up with sat at their desk are a decided deal-breaker when you want to quickly check your email while in a queue at the store.

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Apple announced today in a press release that the act of “improving functionality” of your $600 (or $400 after price drop) device could cause your iPhone to become a really good looking paperweight, should you choose to upgrade to the next firmware version. They also officially stated - clearing up a lot of confusion but not in a way anybody wanted - that said-modifications absolutely do void your warranty.

So Apple releases this great phone, sells a million-plus of them in 74 days, and then they rest on their laurels with no further functionality, no provision for third party apps which might fill in the gap, and now they are punishing the huge modding community behind the Jesus phone that stepped up to fill the void that Apple left. Anyone here besides me think this is BS?

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I wonder what Steve Jobs & Apple would prefer... really. They don't seem to want anyone unlocking or hacking the iPhone, but wouldn't they miss the buzz if we stopped? They're threatening that the new software update coming in a...

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