For me, shelling out the $10 for the upgrade on my iPod Touch 2G was worth it. There are some things that are really quite nice. Such as being able to seek more intricately through songs, push notification, and other major features.

However there are quite a few smaller things that make OS 3.0 more visually appealing. For instance, when the screen dims just before it automatically locks, it will fade instead of just plain dimming. It’s abnormally hard to explain, though. In my opinion that is one of the things Apple does very well. Making the smaller things count almost as much as the more major features.

By the way, I’ve also jailbroken my iPod Touch 2G running on OS 3.0 using redsn0w 0.7. Unfortunately, I’m coming across a problem where my root (/) partition is almost completely used. Even though I only installed one or two apps in Cydia. Might be something wrong with either 3.0 or redsn0w.

I still think that I shoudn’t have to pay for a firmware upgrade, but it seems this update lives up to its $9.95 price tag. What do you think about Apple’s latest firmware update for the iPhone?