keep in mind. the iphone is very nice, but that will not come with insurance. I do not want to break it. thc, has a full keyboard. i just dont know which one to get. iphones are fun. i dont know which one. please help me figure it out.

The iPhone Dev Team, which has been at the forefront of every jailbreak and unlock procedure for each new iPhone model and OS iteration, is apparently very close to the elusive unlock for the iPhone 3G. A recent post to the team’s blog states that the following tasks have now been accomplished:

• Unsigned code execution on 3G baseband
• Reverting 01.45 baseband to previous versions
• Patching of static text (the AT&V demo)
• Injection of AT routines (the task list demo)
• Injection of background tasks (this demo)

The team also warns against updating to the forthcoming iPhone OS 2.2, stating “Installing ‘2.2’ straight away on the iPhone 3G using the iTunes auto-updater could affect your chances of any software unlock in the near future (should one be found and released), so when you see an update in iTunes await our instructions first!”

Feedback? http://www.iphoneatlas.com/contact.

Our sister site, News.com, reports that Telia, Apple’s carrier partner in Sweden, is planning to develop its own MMS (multimedia messaging service) application for the iPhone, according to a report from MacWorld Sweden.

According to the report: “The lack of MMS is perhaps one of the most common gripes about the missing features of the iPhone, second only to cut and paste. But instead of adding that function itself, or allowing a third-party developer to build it for the App Store, Apple is apparently going to let Telia enable MMS on its own.”

A number of quasi-MMS alternatives have populated the App Store. Palringo, for instance, is an iPhone application that lets you connect to your instant messaging accounts from which you can send text, picture and voice instant messages from your iPhone. Picture messaging is not a true MMS replacement since the image you send is actually uploaded and stored on a Palringo server for approximately 10 days. Therefore the picture does not pop-up immediately on your chat friends screen. Instead, they receive a link to click that will let them see the picture. Not exactly what you’d expect, but significantly more convenient than the default MMS/URL mechanism on the iPhone that is essentially useless because of the lack of a copy/paste function.