Oh no… I’m out here at beautiful Hydr Park in Tampa, Fl, typin’ up the post “Hot and Sexy iPhone”, which I finished and I activated Edge to upload it and WordPress can’t access the net. Hmm… Never happened before. So I go to see if I can access the net from Safari and I notice I’m being redirected. “Redirected? Why, I’m not on wifi…” and then I get the image included below.

Are you ****** me?! No, serious, are-you-******-me? ‘Freak… What bull **** is this?

For those of you that don’t know what I’m talkin’ about, check out the “Careful When Callin’ Into T-mobile” post. In a nut shell, I pay $10 a month for my Internet, but I only get 50 MBs a month. T-mobile wants iPhone users to pay for the unlimited plan, $25 a month for unlimited.

It’s towards the end of my billing cycle and T-mobile gives you no way to check how much Internet usage you use. So, there could be a chance I’ve run down all my net usage and that’s the default message your given. Or, T-mobile has started putting filters in place to automatically detect and then block iPhones.

I really don’t know what it could be, so I’ll have to find out later tonight or tomorrow.

Peace, J

So I’ve been usin’ SBSettings to turn my T-mobile Edge Internet on and off enough that I’ve got some tips for ya.

First, unless you’ve got unlimited Internet with T-mobile, my advice is to turn Edge off (and leave it off) when your not usin’ it. This will save not only your data from push service like email, but also save power. And if ya do have unlimited Internet, turn it off when your either in wifi, or when your doing something for a long time, like watchin’ video, and don’t need data (to save battery juice).

When you turn Edge on or off, keep in mind it will disconnect Bluetooth for some reason. But don’t worry, it’s only for a second. Now that ain’t a thang’ for me, but if some of you have Bluetooth devices that will lock up if your phone disconnects from them or somethin’, then keep that in mind.

Turning Edge on or off will make your signal drop. This is your phone signal resetting itself I guess. In addition, it takes Edge about 10 to 30 seconds before the Internet will be ready. You’ll know when Edge is ready when your signal bar goes back up to where it was.

The last thing to keep in mind is that there’s a 1/10 chance that Edge will cause your iPhone to feeze when turning on or off. Make sure to save what your doing before turning Edge on or off.

Peace, J

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