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Happy Friday, Touchtip readers! Today we’d like to share with you some of the best tips that our readers have sent in over the past week. We’ve got some terrific reader tips this week which include how to get free SMS messages on your iPhone, and how to get free push syncing of email, calendar, and contacts without shelling out the extra cash for a MobileMe subscription. You’ll also learn the secret of mastering the iPhone keyboard (hint: it’s easier than you think!).

Read on to learn about these tips, and more. And if you have your own tip you’d like to share, please send it to us and we’ll post in our next Friday Roundup. Now, on to the tips.
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After weeks of speculation and rumor-mongering, it’s finally official. iPhone 3G is Apple’s newest mobile phone that takes an already amazing device to a whole new level. Apple listened closely to its customers to come up with a feature-laden offering in an improved form factor that is thinner than its predecessor. It’s faster, thanks to the 3G high-speed network support. And it’s cheaper, with the 8GB model priced at $199 US.

As if that wasn’t enough Apples throws in GPS, the ability to add third-party native applications, and out-of-the-box support for Exchange which thrusts the iPhone into the enterprise. It’s enough to make a lot of companies very nervous at the thought of losing tremendous market share to Apple. RIM’s BlackBerry has been the darling of the enterprise mobile workforce, but the tide may turn towards iPhone. Makers of portable GPS devices must also be worried. And surely Nintendo is sizing up the iPhone 3G’s potential to unseat the DS as the king of handheld gaming.
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This week’s Friday iPhone tip roundup includes some great advice sent in by the readers of Touchtip. Our post last week about the invites to the EverNote beta was very popular and we still have a few left to give out, just let us know if you want one. Our Playboy post wasn’t so popular, at least not with some of our female readers who felt left out. Honestly, we’d be happy to write up an equivalent post for the ladies, but we can’t find an iPhone app from Playgirl or Chippendales. If you have a suggestion, please share it with us.

Our readers’ tips this week include a very cool way to use your iPhone to send notes to Jott which then get converted to text and sent to your EverNote account. We also find out how to avoid huge roaming charges when using the iPhone outside the U.S., reverse lookup telephone numbers with geolocation, accessing your desktop computer with iPhone or the touch, customizing the icons in the Music app, and how to use an iTunes setting to increase the volume on your mobile device. Read on to get all the details.
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More memory
This big news this week is, of course, the new iPhone and iPod touch models with double the memory for an extra hundred bucks each. But what some sales people may not tell you is that you DO NOT have to extend your contract to upgrade your current device to the one with more memory. The official word from AT&T is that you do have to sign a new contract, but it will be back dated to the original start date of your plan. So don’t let some quota-starved salesperson tell you otherwise. Just get your new iPhone, update your account through iTunes and you’re all set, no contract extension required.
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Today, VOIP application provider JaJah, releases a new iPhone app that allows low-cost international phone calls over the internet, and no download is required. This means you can save the minutes on your AT&T international calling plan. JaJah call rates are cheap and they claim you will save up to 98% on your long distance calls. Registering is free, but once you register at JaJah (it’s free), making calls is simple.
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Today’s tip shows you how to connect your laptop to the internet using your iPhone’s data connection. Yes, we all know how painfully slow the Edge network can be on your iPhone and it will only be worse on your laptop, but sometimes you need to use apps on your laptop that you just don’t have on your iPhone (yet) and a slow connection is acceptable. You will need SSH on your laptop but since that is platform independent this tip should work on Mac, Linux, or PC.
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• Like French hookers, iPhone now available in France, unlocked and cheap
• Like German hookers, iPhone now available in Germany, no strings attached
• iPhone apps will be sold through iTunes sometime next year
• Apple is giving select developers an early release of the iPhone SDK to get high quality iPhone apps created soon

iPhoneSimFree, the company that released the first GUI iPhone SIM unlock, has just provided an updated version of their SimFree unlocker for iPhone 1.1.1 phones. Anyone who previously unlocked their iPhones with iPhoneSimFree can now upgraded to 1.1.1 and enjoy an unlocked phone complete with all of 1.1.1’s functionality.
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