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I have little incentive to upgrade to the new iPhone 3GS, so when jailbreaking for iPhone OS 3.0 was made available yesterday, I bit the bullet. Jailbreaking gets you Cycorder, a free app that records video in MPEG 384 x 288 at 6—15 fps, depending on lighting conditions. Sure it’s far from the 640 x 480 at 30 fps capability of the iPhone 3GS, but it’s better than nothing. Jailbreaking also gets you the numeric battery percentage thingy, which I personally find handy to have.

And, if you’re so inclined towards voice dialing, there’s always Vlingo (direct iTunes link) and Melodis Voice Dialer (direct iTunes link), both of which work pretty well. In addition, you can search Google by voice with its Google Mobile App (direct iTunes link).

Now, I really wanted to, I could stick a compass at the back of this damn thing. Then again, it’s not as if it is that difficult to find where north is. All you have to do is to fire up Maps and let it find your location. Since a map is always drawn with north pointing up, you just have to orientate your iPhone till roads on the map line up with what’s around you, and you’ll know where north is.

Unless, of course, if you’re out in the middle of nowhere…