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Now I’m using the iPhone firmware 1.1.3 for almost three weeks. Now it’s time to write a short blog post about it.

It’s definitely the best update since the iPhone is on the market. It has a much improved stability and it’s much faster then all prior releases. The cover flow does not anymore crash all the times! I’m very happy with the new links in your springboard feature, that’s super! The lyrics feature is pretty good when you are watching podcasts!

The google maps locate me feature is not working very good. Most time it displays a radius of over 20km. But one time it helped me actually finding a location :-). Although i must say i love the paper scrolling effect in the new maps app. Please make more suggestive use of the core animation technology.

So now I’m waiting for the SDK. I have already an idea for an iPhone app but maybe it will take till summer to realize it because I will never have the time to work on it ;-). However I hope i can release an other iPhone tool soon. Be patient!

Recapitulatory i can say the update was absolutely worth it. Till it is so easy to update with ZiPhone (actually it’s even easier then it was on my last blog post) everybody should update!

Yesterday evening I updated to 1.1.3 (with restore over iTunes). After that I used this new tool to activate and jailbreak my iPhone.

1. Boot Windows XP (The mac version doesn’t work)
2. Install iTunes 7.4.2
3. Download the ziphone
4. Execute somthing like ziphone.exe -j -a (i have bootloader 3.9, so unlock (-u) won’t work)
5. Folow the instructions on the screen
6. Use anySim (1.3 for firmware 1.1.3) in Airplane Mode!. Skip that if you have unlocked it already in step 4
7. Enjoy your new 1.1.3 iPhone

So now lets start arrange your icons however you want and locate yourself! In e few day’s I will write about my experience with 1.1.3.