Sending messages on your iPhone is easy, but it is not easy to see when you send one or two messages. There’s an app for that ofcourse. Via Cydia you can find the SMS Helper. After installation you can see how many characters you’ve typed and how many messages you’ll send when you press the send button.
Geohot has created Blackra1n, the first jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.2. It supports Cydia and Icy and is for people who are on firmware 3.1 and 3.1.2. It is also for all devices except the iPod touch 3G. It is possible to jailbreak the iPod touch 3G but it needs to be jailbroken after every reboot.
MuscleNerd, one of iPhone DevTeam’s members, confirmed that they finished testing the new tool and are preparing to release it. We can probably expect the new Pwnage Tool this weekend. It will jailbreak and unlock the iPhone 3GS.
Finally, finally, finally…it seems that the Pwnage Tool will soon be able to run the 3GS. We have waited for a long time. Apparently the iPhone Dev Team has managed to pwn the iPhone 3GS running firmware 3.1. So we can expect the jailbreak very soon. This is good news.
The Chronic Dev Team has made progress with jailbreaking the iPod touch 3G. According to the developers the exploit works perfectly. The jailbreaktool, greenpoison, will probably available very soon.

Here’s a warning from the Dev Team about iPhone firmware 3.1. » Warning From iPhone Dev Team About Firmware 3.1
This app automatically sets your iPhone in silent mode when you are in a meeting and will also automatically return to ring mode at the end of the meeting. The app is called “iSilent” and can be found in the Cydia App Store.
