Comment by jawngee | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jawngee | Hacker News Reader

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These are my reasons, in order of importance:

- MyWi for tethering/mobile hotspot

- BiteSMS lets you send/respond to/view SMS messages without quitting your current app (press up on the volume control and then tap the volume icon to compose).

- Notifier, puts notification icons in the title menu and on your lock screen (notifications for email, missed call, voicemail, text messages, instant messages).

- SBSettings gives me quick one swipe access to turn off the phone, toggle 3G and other settings.

- Backgrounder + ProSwitcher for Palm Pre style multitasking

- 3G Unrestrictor for using Wifi only apps over 3G

- Netatalk/SSH access for custom theming

- MxTube lets me download and save youtube videos.

- Add vibrating haptic feedback to the keyboard

There are other reasons, but those are the ones off the top of my head.

Besides all the good things this man mentioned: - not having to use iTunes.

A strong +1 for Notifier & little +1's for MyWi, 3G Unrestrictor and Backgrounder.

It's amazing to me that Apple hasn't done anything to sort out the issue of notifications on the iPhone since day one. What's that? Your genre defining device requires me to swipe & unlock my phone just to see if an email's arrived since I was left it? Hmmm.

Is AT&T able to detect you tethering? Or, if I tether, will I get a huge data bill even though it's "unlimited"?

I find it more and more difficult to believe that AT&T would be able to tell the difference without looking deeply at the traffic; the iPad loads full web pages and videos, so they probably couldn't tell from bandwidth alone.

Accessing YouTube, App store, maps and various apps should be pretty obvious.

Third party apps can access the network too. So they'd have to distinguish between traffic generated tethered from traffic sent in 3rd-party app store apps.

I was just thinking of plaintext traffic through port 80.

The only reason I can think of to jailbreak, in spite of your list of interesting tweaks, is to get a carrier unlock. Until thats possible with my iPhone 3G, I won't bother ..

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