Car charger does not work on iPhone 3G

Bought following accessories for iPhone 3G:

• Silicon Case Cover from ebay $5.49
• USB charging/sync cable from www.usbfever.com for $3
• USB Car charger from www.dealextreme.com for $2.58 (not working on iPhone 3G!

All three items are shipped from HongKong. However, the car charger does not change iPhone charging icon. I am not sure if it is really charging or not. Since it seems can provide power to the phone. I also saw a forum discussing this issue: "iPhone 3G incompatiable with many iPod accessories". What a bad business/engineering practice from Apple!

Jailbroken iPhone 3G
Now, I can install a proxy and use the phone as a 3G modem for the laptop. That is pretty useful feature. Other goodies include a nice terminal and a demo version of quake2iphone.

See http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ and http://winpwn.com

iPhone 3G is out and it is time to upgrade.
Drove to Palo Alto Apple store at 9:40am Sunday morning 7/27, the store is open! even though the listed hours open at 11am.
There is no line when I walked in. Quickly I decided to buy 16GB model using the $300 gift card from Tai. One small sidetrack was the corporate discount on my current AT&T service locked me out so I have to make a call to remove it first. Eric is handling my sales and check out is done around 10am. Here are some pictures of new and old iPhones.

A few days after this purchase, the old phone was sold for $305 on ebay to someone in Argentina.