iPhone Firmware 3.0 Beta Hacked to Enable USB Tethering
One of the features in iPhone firmware 3.0 that Apple strangely didn't announce was support for tethering but provided some details about the feature during the Q&A session.
Irish iPhone developer, Steven Troughton-Smith who had figured out a way to enable Emoji icons in iPhone firmware 2.2 with a simple hack has managed to enable tethering on his iPhone after upgrading to iPhone firmware 3.0 beta which is currently available only to developers of iPhone developer program.
The ability to tether the iPhone to feed a data connection to your computer to surf the internet was one of the features in our iPhone Firmware 3.0 Wish List. Apple gave us the good news that they are inded building support for tethering in iPhone Firmware 3.0 during the Q&A session, however they added that it will depend on carriers to add tethering support on their networks.
