My Zen Arcade

Sorry, been gone for a while.  Spent a lot of time swinging back and forth between blinding rage and abject apathy.

That said, I love my new iPhone 3GS.  The internet speed is insane.  A few days ago, we were having WiFi issues and switching to the 3G network was much better.  With Edge, it was a real pain to check email sometimes, and, of coure, it created some static with other electronic devices in the immediate vacinity.  Not so with 3G.

I’m pretty pissed that I can’t tether to the phone from my macbook and use the 3G network.  I had assumed that this was an issue with AT&Ts network setup, but that is not the case.  Following the instructions here:

http://www.gadgetreview.com/2009/06/gadget-how-to-iphone-tethering-without-jailbreaking.html

got me tethered and using 3G via bluetooth, which was tres cool indeed.

However, I lost visual voicemail.  Undoing the change by removing the profile returned visual voicemail, but, alas, I’d forgotten my password.

I got it reset by dialing 800-331-0500 and going to the voicemail section and reset password.  So no big deal.

Also, tethering stayed a setting from the network screen, which I didn’t have before.  I’ll have to play around with this more now that I know how to undo it.

I probably won’t use this feature, as a rule, but I may bookmark the page in case I do need it.  Most importantly, this shows that the real issue is that AT&T hasn’t figured out how to charge us for this.  I believe there’s a hack you can get to that also shows you how to set up.

Anyhow, I really can’t recommend this device enough (like you haven’t heard that a million times this month).

edit: oops.  I went to turn tethering on again (without installing the profile) and the option vanished.  Oh well, still, well worth knowing.