Yesterday I closed my Sprint Mobile Broadband account. Right now, I’m writing this post in a coffee shop in Washington DC. I’m not on wi-fi because I’m tethered to my AT&T 3G Internet connection through my new iPhone 3GS.
This isn’t exactly new, but it just got a lot easier. If you don’t want to do [...]
Daniel Ionescu at PC World wrote about of some of the new “hidden” features iPhone OS 3.0 brings to iPhone and iPod Touch users. Apple’s servers are now running smoothly, so everyone should be able to upgrade and start using these new features right away.
So much for the update being available as scheduled. If you’ve been trying to upgrade your iPhone to OS 3.0 all night, you already know the deal.
While AT&T is dragging its feet on official tethering support for iPhone customers, that doesn’t mean you can’t do it now with a relatively simple workaround involving a custom carrier settings file.
The folks from Dev-Team have announced that they’re ready to release new versions of their QuickPwn and PwnageTool jailbreaking tools for iPhone OS 3.0 that will work with iTunes 8.2. They’ll be holding off on the release until shortly after Apple has officially released iPhone OS 3.0 to ensure the hole they’re exploiting cannot be [...]
AT&T will reportedly offer tethering with the new iPhone 3.0 software. What that means is that you will be able to use your iPhone as a modem for your laptop or netbook while you’re on the go.
Over the weekend, pictures of what appear to be the upcoming iPhone in action surfaced on the web. The photos were posted (and later removed) by Hong Kong-based UMPC Fever, and show off a few of the features we already knew were included in OS 3.0, including video capture, multimedia messaging, and an improved stock [...]
From day one, Apple has kept a staunch “no background processes” policy on the iPhone, claiming that the preservation of battery life is their main motivation for doing so. As a result, you need to open an application for it to check for new data, like new e-mails or items in an RSS feed.
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A Russian hacker named Vortex, who is in no way involved with iPhone jailbreaking pioneers Dev Team, has released a jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.0 beta 2 – but we suggest you don’t go ahead with it for now if you intend on using yellowsn0w, Dev Team’s software-based carrier unlock, with OS 3.0.
