Rumour: Apple & AT&T may provide tethering for iPhone

Gizmodo reports that there are rumours that Apple and AT&T may provide an official way to tether your computer to your iPhone. In other words, share your iPhone’s 3G with your laptop / computer.

The plan may be in the range of $30 bucks a month, since that is where the tethering plan for the Blackberry is at right now.

Of course you can do this “unofficially” for free (though you will probably be fined if you are found tethering) if you jailbreak your phone. My handy guide to that is found here.

I probably won’t be doing either anytime soon… I’ve found 3G to be really slow recently. =(

Getting Rid of your iphone: How to sell your iPhone

I’m going to base a lot of this on my personal experience.

You could either

1. Sell it directly yourself

or

2. Sell it at a discount to a service that will then sell it themselves

Read on for my experience / tips selling your iPhone, and for how to do no. 2 should you decide on that as well.

Slow 3G on the iPhone? It’s not the phone

There are two sets of studies out there that suggest that the slow speeds on the iPhone are not due to the phone itself, but overloaded networks.

Cut & Paste on the Iphone

Some independent developers have come out with a workaround for implementing cut & paste on the iPhone. This isn’t some sort of Apple led – development, so it is a little sketchy and doesn’t work across all apps on the phone. It’s called OpenClip, and is an open source framework that can be implemented by different app makers to allow cut and paste.

Pretty neat huh? Well, thing is, the framework will no longer work in Firmware 2.1 when that comes out.

iPhone 2.0.2 upgrade : Beware

 

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Just an update on the 2.0.2 upgrade… You might want to hold off, as instead of improving the 3G connectivity, it has made it worse for some people. Now, it might not be you… but then, it might be.

 

In further news, Steve Jobs has apparently responded to an email of a distressed customer, reassuring him that an update fixing the constant app crashes will be released sometime in September.

And while many of us are expectantly waiting for the big update that implements push for apps to drop, therefore allowing us to receive IMs even when AIM is closed on the iPhone – this may have faced a setback. Apple has removed that functionality from the latest firmware seeded to developers.

Now, that may not necessarily mean we aren’t seeing the Push functionality in September… but chances are that it may unfortunately be the case.

iPhone Firmware 2.0.2 Released!

Fire up your iTunes, and update your firmware! As per usual, Apple has only included “Bug Fixes” in its description for this 249 MB download, but I have listed some general fixes that have been observed by users, after the break:

Back from Hiatus!

Alrighty – sorry about the brief haitus fellas and girls, but iPhoneInformer is back!

Look forward to continued news coverage, and app reviews. =)

iPhone jailbreak update released

The newest iPhone Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 has been released. Still can’t unlock the 3G, but jailbreaks the two iPhones, and the Touch.

Head on over.

12 iPhone Tips You May Not Know

I was saving an article like this for later, but it seems like I’ve been beaten to it.

ismashphone.com has posted a helpful list of 12 iPhone tips & tricks that most of you will likely find helpful. I’ll add more tips of my own in the future. Meanwhile, head on over.

News: Apple can deactivate your apps remotely

 

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This news has been going around for a while now. Apparently it has been discovered that apple can delete / disable your apps remotely, if they so desire.

 

They do this by having the iPhone check a certain server occasionally – blacklisted apps will be removed.

I reckon this feature will allow apple to disable:

1) Malicious apps that may cause you harm

2) Apps that are against the terms of use. (Such as unlocking programs that make it onto the app store by mistake, etc).

All in all, I don’t think this is something to get freaked out about. I’m not sure, but I don’t think Apple will be able to disable apps installed via jailbreak. So as long as you stick your “unofficial” apps on your jailbroken iphone through installer.app, you should be fine.

UPDATE: Some insider sources from Apple have claimed that it’s not a mechanism for Apple to disable your apps. Instead, it’s to allow Apple to block blacklisted apps from finding our your locations via GPS. Which doesn’t sound bad at all since it would probably protect your privacy.