iPhone connectivity

It's not official yet. You'd have to jailbrake for now.

Or just get the ATT E71 in April and buy the joikuspot premium app.

oh damn that sucks. I wonder why. You can easily do this on a Blackberry or even my regular phone I did it. (got the stupid Verizon wireless website that offered to connect me for $65 -bastards!  Said something like "We're glad you're interested in using mobile broadband, now pay me..."

I mean, I can get on to mobile web, so why cant I just download some paket data you pricks!?

hahahah.

that's what you get for buying the car at the gas station.
j/k
honestly, i expect the iphone has battery life issues.

they give you a five 5GB cap and expect you to use nothing. charging more for tethering is unscrupulous. I'm only eating a gig a month on my E71, why not let me rollover the data? Anyway. They'll never know I have joikuspot installed.

:-)

I  doubt it's blocked on the G1.

http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

maybe this summer

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/03/18/usb-tethering-publish-video-and-find-my-iphone-found-in-os-3-0/

Also watch tethering any laptop on your phone, some carriers charge extra (yes, that makes no sense, but true).

I'm writing this dressed in a bear's pelt. Outside is my mammoth, saddled for my daily commute.

Why am I dressed like a cave person? Well, you see. I'm the last person on Earth to not actually have a cell-phone. This simple fact dates me at around the stone age.

It's not that I don't want a phone, but from the very start those telco contracts have seemed to me like the worst kind of one sided strangle hold. They demand a two year commitment and a fancy voice and data plan, but step one foot over a national border and they send a bill that would require a second mortgage on your house.

They charge more for a megabyte of data trafic, than NASA charges per gram of equipment launched into orbit. http://www.howstuffworks.com/space-elevator.htm

You aren't alone. I don't own a cell phone either.

Even the pay-as-you-go plans here will cost you $200 a year, even if you never use the phone, plus you have to BUY the phone. So $50 for the cheapest phone (no camera, no MP3s, no nothin), plus when you buy a $15 credit, they expire it after 45 days. Which is kinda sucky.

Mobile is a joke in North America

I did not get one until 2005 when I had a lady on the other side of the SF Bay.

btw - I am pretty sure you can install the iPhone 3G/3GS tethering bundle on OS 3.0.0 and as it runs over USB there's no battery issue.

I /heard/ the SMS patch killed tethering.

I'm now on a 15$/month data plan with a 5GB cap... teeheeeeeee

I tethered for free until I sold my E71 two days ago.