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Filed under: Software, Apple, OS X

We can’t say this is a surprise… but it is sweet to see. The iPhone Dev Team has added a video to their blog showing off the latest version of their upcoming PwnageTool 2.0, along with a video of what they claim is the “world’s first” jailbroken iPhone 3G. Check the video after the break, and hit the read link to see how their progress is coming on the new case-cracker.

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Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson, GSM, EDGE

If you were thinking to yourself, “gee whiz, if only Sony Ericsson had made a Walkman version of the S302,” well, your life is at this time complete. The sporty, hipper version of the S302 Snapshot is predictably hot-rodded up, though the changes seem to be strictly visual — from a guts perspective, the W302 (codenamed “Feng,” it seems) should be a dead ringer for its recently declare cousin. Sony Ericsson Blog claims we can expect to see it declare on July 22 alongside the W595 and W902, with a release in October.

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Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

Services like Loopt and Whrrl are trying to break the door down on a potentially very big new market by convincing phone users that it’s totally cool for your friends to know precisely where you are at any given time. Potentially scary, yes, but the benefits are obvious — and when all the security and privacy issues have been squared away, it could be a big deal. Nokia’s diving into the fray at this time with Chat, an IM client currently in beta that integrates with your contact list and allows selected friends to see one anothers’ locations in real time. That in itself isn’t novel, but the app also allows you to mark off landmarks which will automatically trigger broadcast messages to your friends with zero involvement or interaction with the phone. Kinda nifty for letting folks know when you show up to work or school, for example — as long as you’re not chronically late, anyhow. Follow the break for a video intro of the system.

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