Jailbreaking iOS4, the good, the bad and the ugly
Finally after waiting, and waiting the expected jailbreak for iOS4 came, the problem was I had a 3.1.3 “spirited” iPhone, so, the pwned version wont work for me. But thanx to @comex (et al) the great jailbreakme came, and I can join the iOS4 party.
The good:
Fast, I can’t believe its my old 3GS, is blazing fast, even with some “background jobs” its faster than 3.1.3. Another good things are folders, I used to have about 6 pages of apps, now I only had 2
The bad:
I can’t get to enable the “tethering” option on preferences, you can use the program tether (I kind of dislike it because its actually a socks proxy, not a NAT or something more native), or you can use MyWi4 , I used to like this on 3.1.3 but 2 things made me think about it, 1. you can not enable bluetooth tethering anymore, you can do USB tethering and wifi, but for example for my linux laptop I can no longer use bluetooth 
, 2. When you install MyWi4 it depends on a package mobilesubstrate, and this breaks a lot of things (and I’m not blaming anyone, I’m just saying this breaks things), for example, the “always on” functionality on skype, no longer works. check update, this is now working
Update: ( http://twitter.com/saurik/status/20294560499 )
The ugly:
I really hate that even applications that system preferences stays working on background, I might be wrong here (can be only showing the icon for example), but almost every app stays on this “taskbar” (the one you get when you doble click on the home button), and yes, the battery suffers even with only the skype running.
Well, anyway, I can’t go back , so I hope the hacking team can get the tether toggle enabled again. Consider this post a big thanks to the jailbreak team 
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