Do a Google search of the features iPhone miss out, you will come across a long list of items.

1. Safari not Flash supported
2. BT stack is lock and limited to headset only
3. Copy and paste
4. and the list goes on…

Somehow people just forgot to include the most primitive, most important, in fact the action they been doing all these while.

Did you notice there's no search function on iPhone for your SMS, emails and notes? Unbelievable? Believe it!

Once again Cydia is here to save the day.

Look for "Search" in Cydia. Search is an application that allows you to search through your emails, SMS, notes and contacts on your iphone. You need to first select in which of the 5 categories you want to search and in the search tab type in the words you are looking for. The best part, it even highlights the text in search results.

In my previous blog I have described how to setup wireless music streaming using Airport Express. The drawback is you have to use iTunes to play the music, which means you can't lay on the couch with the computer on the desk and control the music with a remote control, because there isn't any remote control for iTunes.

If you own an iPhone you are in luck. Goto app store and download the app "Remote". The app is developed by Apple team.

It's an idiot proof app. Connect your iPhone to computer, launch iTunes and Remote. A passcode is provided in Remote. Enter that passcode into iTunes. There you go. You can now use iPhone to control all the music on your computer iTunes*. Sit back, relax and enjoy the music

*The music is stored on your computer, not on iPhone. A full list of songs on computer iTunes will be displayed on iPhone.

Stumble upon this humorous video on CNET Crave. Quite hot topic these days. Like to share with you all.

The clip originally taken from a 2004 German film, Downfall (Der Untergang) depicting the final twelve days of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker and Nazi Germany in 1945. Only subtitle is modified.

*Spoiler (highlight to read): Don't get the message? Nikon D3X uses the same sensor as SONY A900. SONY A900 only selling at ~USD3000. Nikon D3X on the other hand, USD8000. Good luck Nikonians. (highlight to read)

Finally my prayers have been answered. Copy & Paste!

CopierciN is the latest attempt to bring Copy & Paste (CnP) feature to the iPhone between applications which has been surprisingly missing ever since the launch of iPhone.

It's not as straight forward as on computer and limited to few apps. Currently only supports SMS, contacts, notes, emails and txt files.

It consists of two parts, a basic editor and an import/export mechanism.

Here how it works. Use the basic editor to type, cut, copy and paste. If you happen to have text from SMS, emails etc, just import them (all text) into the editor. You then need to manually delete the unwanted lines. Once done you can export the edited text to SMS, notes, email or text file. I agree it's not convenient. Nevertheless it proves CnP is possible and feasible on iPhone. How can Steve Jobs miss that out? Guess what, it is developed by a Turkish developer who apparently just taught himself Objective C programming.

CopierciN is not available in Apple App Store and foreseable future will not be approved by Apple. You will need to jailbreak iPhone and install using Cydia.

Twice as fast. Half the price. This is how Apple advertise iPhone 3G, from day 1 until now. Ever wonder how true is that? Let's analyze words by words.

Half the price applies to US iPhone 3G unit price as compare to previously iPhone 2G unit price. This does not include the AT&T subscription plan customer must stuck for 2 years (iPhone 3G) as compare to 1 year (iPhone 2G). This explains the asterisk(*) behind half the price.

Twice as fast gives you the impression that iPhone 3G is two times faster than iPhone 2G.

I did a research after stumble upon this article.

Suit Alleges AT&T, Apple 'Oversold' iPhone, Strained 3G Network

In short the person is suing Apple over false advertisement, claiming iPhone 3G is twice as fast. He complains about grindingly slow network speeds and unreliable 3G network performance. This makes me wonder how about the hardware speed?

For those who have purchased iPhone 3G, here's the inconvenient truth.

iPhone 2G and 3G uses the same Samsung S5L8900 412 MHz ARM 1176 processor, same 128MB DRA.

http://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=M68ap

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone

The difference are as followed.

2G: Aluminum back case - 3G: Black or White plastic back case

2G: Edge network - 3G: 3G network

2G: No GPS Antenna - 3G: Integrated GPS Antenna

2G: Proprietary 4mm headphone minijack - 3G: Common 3.55mm headphone minijack

2G: Thinner body - 3G: Fatter body

2G: Color display - 3G: Better color display

2G: More powerful Wi-Fi antenna - 3G: Less powerful Wi-Fi antenna

I bought my iPhone 2G at RM1800 (no subscription plan). iPhone 3G is selling ~RM2800 (no subscription plan) in Malaysia now. Thus you are actually paying RM1000 for the 3G and GPS antenna, a slightly better color display, in trade off aluminum case, bulkier, and less powerful Wi-Fi antenna (Steve Jobs expect you to use 3G all the time).

I just upgraded my iPhone 2G to latest Firmware 2.2. Guess what, A-GPS actually works! Using cell towers I can determine my position, in 1km radius vs 100m for satellite GPS. Anyhow iPhone Google Map does not provide real time navigation. 1km vs 100m doesn't make much difference in this case. In the end you still have to learn how to read the map.

For those planning to get iPhone 3G, please do not be discourage by this blog. You do not have any choice. iPhone 2G has long been discontinued.