The upcoming release of SimCity for the iPhone isn’t just bad because it’s another game I’d rather play than hang out with other human beings. It’s bad because even when I do muster up the energy and desire to share my life with the rest of humanity, a hasty retreat is no longer a car/train ride home. It’s in my pocket. All the time.

Damnit.

Since we were talking about recording music…

So have any of you guys tried some of the new apps available from the app store?

So far I’ve gotten AIM, MLB: At Bat, Cube Runner, Remote, Weather Bug and Box Office.

Read more for mini-reviews.

at the Yellow Party. Someone may have walked off it with it, I’m not sure. But so far, it hasn’t turned up in anyone’s car or my house or Sammy and Christina’s. The financial hit of having to get a new one aside, I’m now currently phoneless and I’ve never felt so incomplete.

Ziphone, an app that claims one-click jailbreaking for your iPhone or iPod Touch, was released yesterday. Pumped as I was to finally get an NES emulator on my phone, I was disappointed to find it simply wouldn’t work on my iPhone. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong, missing a step, or it’s a bug in the newest version of the software (there have been several in the past few hours), but I jailbreak it and it fails to reboot, forcing me to do a restore.

There’s no harm in trying as you can’t brick your phone using this app. You can only force a restore. I’m curious to see if anyone has any better luck than I.