Steven Troughton-Smith has jailbroken the Palm Pre while at WWDC in San Francisco.

Well, success I gave up Tuesday eve because I couldn’t get the device into restore mode no matter what I did, but on Wednesday morning I figured it out: you have to hold the volume-up button while the device is off before plugging it into USB, and from there you can use Palm’s firmware flashers to do whatever you like with it. As the device can run unsigned firmware (!!!) I was easily able to hack out the activation check, and get up and running and enable the root shell. In that respect, I may just have the first jailbroken Pre in existence.

Troughton-Smith says that for hacking, the Pre is incredible. It runs unsigned firmware, has root shell over USB, its entire UI and all apps are written in javascript, and you run write C/C++ native Linux apps.

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The new Griffin Reveal Case adds just 1.4 mm in thickness to your iPhone or iPod touch.

Our thinnest case for iPhone or iPod touch yet, Reveal adds just 1.4 mm in thickness. Sleek, one-piece design shields your iPhone or iPod touch from the indignities of the outside world as it preserves look and feel. Reveal’s polycarbonate shell holds snugly while slim rubber accents cushion and protect.

Features:
- One-piece polycarbonate shell with ultra-thin rubber interior lining accents
- Super-slim – adds just 1.4 mm in thickness to your iPhone 3G or 2nd gen. iPod touch
- Allows access to all ports
- $24.99

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Unboxing images of the new iPhone 3G S show the new Voice Control and Compass App. The images are featured in an Engadget gallery.

Poor lighting likely makes the trim look gold trim; however, this is usually caused by incorrectly set white balance on the photographers camera or a reflection. (as suggested by commenter Rob).

Take a look at the pics below or hit the link for the full gallery.

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Users may be “shocked” to see how powerful the iPhone 3G S is for 3D graphics, according to an UberGizmo report.

When released the iPhone 3G S will feature a faster CPU, more RAM, and a Power-VR SGX GPU which supports OpenGL ES 2.0. According to UberGizmo this GPU is faster than the old one in two fundamental graphics metrics:

- Triangle setup: This defines how many triangles can be processed per second
- Fillrate: a measure of how many pixels can be modified per second.

Both metrics are key to increase graphics realism. But that’s not it: the iPhone 3GS does not just use sheer brute force to make games look better. Thanks to the more programmable architecture of the Power-VR SGX, developers can now use techniques found on PS3 and Xbox 360 games.

The article likens the difference in graphics to the improvements made from Half Life to Half Life 2. Look at the screenshots below to get a visual idea of the enhancements.

Its been suggested that the difference in graphics between iPhone models will cause a split in the App Store.

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[Half Life = iPhone 3G]

[Half Life 2 = iPhone 3G S]

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