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USB Tethering Working On iPhone 3.0 Through Hack
eviltangerine writes "Twitter user stroughtonsmith was dickering around with the carrier bundle files for his developer version of the iPhone 3.0 OS and enabled the USB tethering options. Apparently he has even been able to use his laptop to access the internet over the USB tether. MacRumors comments that while Apple has announced the availability of tethering, it hasn't hashed out the details with the mobile carriers (probably so they can charge more in fees). No word on connection speed, but here are some pictures of his phone while tethering."
seriously GIVES A FUCK?
You have to understand that the demographic targeted was not business users, if you think I'm wrong here then watch the original commercials and see the "enterprise" apps they showed. The iphone at launch sucked compared to blackberry and other smartphones for purpose of business. I still do not consider the iphone business class even though it can do it. With all of that said, tethering has not been something that really caught on with your typical cellphone user but is something that business people and geeks like to use. The EDGE network was no where near that great of speeds that people would accept for tethering. In short, if you expected to use the iphone to tether then you picked the wrong device.