If you want the battery meter just jailbreak the Iphone, Install SBSettings, and turn it on. There are also alot of other things you can turn on as well. Numeric WiFi, GSM, Status bar date, Free Mem, Apple Killswitch. As for recording, you could always use Iphone Video Recorder instead of cycorder. But I see no reason to upgrade my phone just yet. Does everything I need it to do.