Necell 3GS: Why I Still Won’t Use SBSettings

So now that I’ve got the Neocell 3GS and I’m able to run jailbroken applications with ease, such as Backgrounder., you’d think I’d now use SBSettings since I have twice the CPU power and twice the memory for my iPhone 3GS 32GB, right? Wrong. Here’s why…

SBSettings is a great little jailbroken app, for those of you who don’t know, that allows you to swipe across the top of your phone to turn off and on very important things, such as your wifi, bluetooth, adjust your brightness, ect. But the problem is that SBSettings has to run in the background 24/7 of your iPhone, whether your using it at the moment or not. As I’ve said before, SBSettings will slow your system down. But this was for 2G and 3G iPhones, which for any’a y’all that didn’t know, are the same exact speed (everything, but internet of course). I’m a public advocate, I guess you could say, for keeping your jailbroken speed as close to non-jailbroken devices. So I tell any and everyone I know not to use SBSettings because of the impact it has on your speed.

But now a select few, including myself, have iPhone 3GS’s. Twice the memory, twice the processor power, yada yada yada… Does this mean “Yay, me gets SBSettings now…” and everything’s fine and dandy? Freak no. It’ll just slow down some of the speed advantage you have of your 3GS. Now, unless you wanted to buy a 3GS just to run apps like these, regardless if your 3GS is slower than other 3GS’s… fine. But I know the majority of you out there rockin’ a 3GS got it for the speed, among other things. SBSettings will, of course, eat into your speed.

And here’s another reason not to get SBSettings, or Bossprefs for that matter… being able to turn wifi on or off don’t work. Nope… didn’t work for the Neocell 2G, and it doesn’t work for the Neocell 3GS. I mean, for me, that’s the whole point of using SBSettings or Bossprefs is to turn bluetooth and wifi off. If I can’t turn off wifi from either app and have to go into the settings section of the Neocell to turn wifi off, I might as well turn bluetooth on or off while I’m there. I mean that’s the point of the apps, so for me, functionality of the apps is straight up broke.

So should you use SBSettings? It’s your choice… but if it ain’t good enough for the Neocell 3GS, how are you dissin’ your own 3GS and saying it’s good enough for you? (And if you’ve got a 2G or 3G iPhone, it’s not even a choice because you will become sluggish). Don’t make your 3GS be like the crappy stick figure below…

Peace, J

iPhone Call Audio Source Selection

Of any phones I’ve seen, iPhones have got to be one of the best at switching call audio from Bluetooth. Most phones I’ve worked with have all been so complex to work with in switching audio from a Bluetooth device, such as a GPS, to the cell phone’s speaker. In fact, a lot of phones can’t even switch audio, they’ll try to just disconnect. When this happens, the Bluetooth device can actually try to reconnect back to your phone when your trying to talk on the phone.

But with iPhones, it’s so easy and fun. Take my Lexus for example. When I hop in my ride, I turn Bluetooth on the NeoCell. Once I start the car up, the GPS connects to the NeoCell. I can then dial and take calls from the GPS touch screen while my phone’s in my pocket. Once I’m on a call, I can choose (on the iPhone’s screen) whether to switch audio from the car to the phone’s speakers.

What’s great about this is that I can switch the audio right back to the car no problem. This is the only phone I’ve worked with that’s been so great to use like this for Bluetooth.

Peace, J

No Teathered Internet With 3.0 OS?

Well, the info has been released on what most of the major things will be comin’ out for the new iPhone 3.0 OS (set to come out this summer). There were hopes that Apple would introduce “teathered” Internet, as I mentioned the post before.

Well the bad news, for people like me, is that’s not gonna’ happen. Yeah, sorta’ sucks that I won’t be able to use the NeoCell to share its Edge Internet with my TomTom GPS so that I can get traffic updates. I’d go with a traffic antenna for my GPS, but, just like the NeoCell, I’ve hacked it too, turnin’ my model of GPS into the latest model (savin’ hundreds), so a traffic antenna may not work. That’s why I’m pushin’ to get the NeoCell to feed the Lexus data rather than an antenna.

Peace, J

Teather Internet For 3.0 OS?

It’s one in the morn, and this is the first time I’ve found out that Apple is going to announce details about a new OS update for iPhones, 3.0 later today.

So I’m readin’ that they may release the ability to use a Bluetooth connection to teather Internet.

I would love this because I would be able to use the NeoCell’s mobile internet to get live traffic updates to my gps via Bluetooth, which I haven’t been able to since getting an iPhone.

Lookin’ forward to seein’ all the things they announce.

Peace, J