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Enable Tethering On Your iPhone 3G and 3GS With Only Safari (MMS, VV Fix)

Here you have an extremely easy way to have tethering enable on your iPhone 3G and 3GS without having to pay the expensive AT&T, O2 or any other network since this method is accepted in many countries, just by visiting a site on your iPhone’s Safari. No jailbreaking needed. just type the following address in Safari:

http://help.benm.at/help.php

Then scroll down to the Tethering & Internet Settings, then choosing your country and provider. This works for both AT&T and T-Mobile, and will let you install the appropriate configuration.

Now go to your settings and enable tethering. Check the video walkthrough bellow to help you configure tethering.

If you have an iPhone 3G or first generation iPhone running OS 3.0 and is jalbreaked you can now unlock the iPhone by downloading Ulrasn0w on Cydia or Icy, you dont have to jailbreack the iPhone again, just follow these instructions:

1. Ensure you have upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0
2. Jailbreak your iPhone 3G using redsn0w or PwnageTool (this will also install Cydia/Icy)
3. Run Cydia or Icy
4. Please add the repo repo666.ultrasn0w.com to Cydia or Icy. That last “o” is actually the number zero “0”! If you use the letter “o” you’ll get an error.
5. Search for ‘ultrasn0w’ in cydia or icy and install ultrasn0w
6. Reboot your iPhone 3G
7. T-Mobile USA users should disable 3G before using ultrasn0w
8. Enjoy

Apple today announced that it has sold over one million iPhone 3G S models through Sunday, June 21, the third day after its launch. In addition, six million customers have downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software in the first five days since its release.

“Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.”

With more than 12 million iPhone and iPod Touch users, Apple has been the choice for smart phones and mp3 players.

We all know about the cut, copy and paste, landscape keyborad, spotlight search and so on but that’s only about 20 or 30 of the 100 new features on the new Apple’s iPhone firmware 3.0 so where and what are the others?? So here is a list of 20 hidden features on the firmware 3.0:

• Adjustable Song Scrolling Speed
• Special Characters In Messaging
• More Ways to Access Spotlight
• Quote Fragment Within Reply in Mail
• Remove Individual Texts from A Conversation
• Open Link In New Tab In Safari
• Force Quit Unresponsive Apps
• Shake Phone to Undo Typing
• Change App Store Account On The Fly
• Unlimited Number of Apps Can Be Installed

• New options for the “Home” button
• New spoken text control buttons
• Copy and paste retains style and formatting
• Copy and paste works in all kinds of places
• Spotlight search: OIne hell of a great app launcher
• The Search feature is, like, everywhere
• Contacts are now sharable
• Set your iPhone’s contents to self-destruct
• Battery life can now be expressed as a percentage
• The YouTube app no longer sucks!

As promised by Apple, the firmware 3.0 is released on Wednesday afternoon

Firmware 3.0 features

In total, iPhone Software 3.0 delivers over 100 new features when compared to the previous version (2.2.1). Some of the more prominent enhancements include:

• Cut, Copy & Paste: Quickly cut, copy, and paste text from application to application. Select entire blocks of web text with a tap. Copy and paste images from the web, too.
• Landscape Keyboard: Rotate iPhone to landscape to use a larger keyboard in Mail, Messages, Notes, and Safari.
• MMS: Send MMS messages and include video, photos, audio, and contact info. Even tap to snap a picture or shoot a video right inside Messages. MMS support for U.S.-based AT&T customers won’t be available until late summer.
• Spotlight Search: Find what you’re looking for across your iPhone, all from one place. Spotlight searches all of your contacts, email, calendars, and notes, as well as everything in your iPod.
• Voice Memos: Capture a memo, a meeting, or any audio recording on the go. Voice Memos works with the built-in iPhone microphone or with the mic on your headset.
• Improved Calendar: Create meetings via Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and subscribe to calendars with new CalDAV support.
• Buy Movies, TV Shows, and Audiobooks: Download movies, TV shows, music videos, and audiobooks from the iTunes Store on your iPhone.
• Safari Improvements: Enjoy faster performance, autofill user names and passwords, and more.
• Internet Tethering: Share your Internet connection with your laptop with Internet tethering via Bluetooth or USB. Tethering is not currently offered in the U.S. and some other countries.
• Stereo Bluetooth: Connect compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones, car kits, or other accessories.
• Automatic Wi-Fi Login: Log in to a Wi-Fi hotspot and iPhone automatically logs you in when you connect again.
• Sync Notes: Never leave a note behind. Now you can sync all the notes you write on your iPhone back to your Mac or PC.
• Parental Controls: Decide what music, videos, and apps your kids can access.
• iTunes Store Account: Create and log in to one or more iTunes Store accounts directly from your iPhone.
• YouTube Login: Log in to your YouTube account to save and sync bookmarks and rate favorites.
• Shake to Shuffle: Give iPhone a shake and it shuffles to a different song in your music library.
• New Languages: iPhone supports 30 languages and more than 40 keyboard layouts.
• MobileMe Find My iPhone and Remote Wipe: Find your iPhone if you lose it and protect your privacy with Remote Wipe.
• Run the Latest Apps: Run the next generation of iPhone apps, like peer-to-peer games and more.

The iPhone 3.0 Firmware will be released today 17 of July, for those who like to jailbreak their phone will be happy to know that the Dev Team have already a solution for Jailbreak and Unlock the software 3.0 – Ultrasnow will unlock iPhone 3G running firmware 3.0. This is a video demo of ultrasnow, a software unlock for the iPhone 3G running firmware 3.0. Unlocking your iPhone lets you use the iPhone with other carriers like T-Mobile in the US. (This does not work for Verizon) The plan for release is this Friday through Cydia.