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There's nothing trivial about it, it involves a multi-step process that this app eliminates with one click.

If I understand it correctly [1] even with this app, you do have to do all the setup: set up the ad-hoc network, get your iphone to connect to the ad-hoc network, set your browsers SOCKS proxy, etc. The only difference is that this app creates a socks server on the iphone with one click, whereas with a jailbroken phone you need to do this on your laptop/desktop with a SSH one-liner.

I don't see much difference. I did say that this is for jailbroken phones only, so if you've jailbroken your iPhone, you can easily run a simple ssh command? Am I missing something?

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/01/netshare-iphone-tethering...

You're not. I've been tethering my jailbroken phone for a week now, and the process is exactly as you describe.

The only difference with the app is the ability to trade one line of typing for $10.

And your phone doesn't need to be jailbroken... downloaded and installed on a non jailbroken 3g and was up and running no problems.

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