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Regarding 1 & 2, I use VLC4iPhone, not sure if it came through Cydia or Rock.

While it does the job there is much more work to be done before it becomes useable. Lets hope the developer gets motivated to devote more time to it.

Good questions I hope some one else chips in.

You can leave out the 'advocate' part and I'm still fine with what you just called me :D jk

Btw, I'm answering just from my personal experience so I don't know 100% of the answers to your question...

Answers in red.

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Originally Posted by Bec (Post 723485)

I want ysss (the devil's advocate) to tell me where iPhone is standing right now - only talking hacked:

Question 1:
Can I install MPlayer via cydia and the browse from mplayer to my wherever stored avi, xvid, divx on the device?

I don't know, this isn't something that I need to do regularly. I mostly download video podcasts or tv shows from iTunes for iPhone. On my last trip with an iPad, I reencoded a bunch of avi tv series (to mp4) to be loaded to iTunes.
(Much to my amazement the reencoded mp4 was about 60% of the avi size and still looks 90% as good)

Question 2:
Other video players and streaming?

For personal video collection, there is a very good video streaming app that I use on my iPad called Air Video. It comes with (free) desktop daemon (win and mac, not sure about *nix) that can live transcode and stream to the iPad (or iPhone). I can transcode 1080p mkv movies on my MacBook Pro (dual core 2.4) in real time with this.

There are numerous online video streamers too (Netflix, ABC, Hulu coming soon), some requires subscriptions or are limited to US audience only.

Question 3:
Mass storage, does it work/is it there in iPhone 4?

I'm 90% sure it'll work if jailbroken. Otherwise you're limited to SD transfer function to download pictures to iPhoto.

Question 4:
Other torrent apps besides torrentula (with a guy)?

No idea, I don't torrent on 3G.

Question 5:
rar and zip archive managers, but esp rar?

Yes, there is iUnarchiver which handles zip, rar, 7-zip, tar, gzip, bz2/BZip2, LhA and StuffIt.

Question 6:
Considering the impaired BT, can I send contact cards after hacking it?

I don't know. Most of the time I exchange vcf by email. I found it easier (can do it anywhere) and easily stored and tagged on my email client.

Question 7:
There was an app called greasepocket aiming to replicate greasmonkey, is it there yet?

I don't know. The latest desktop Safari (finally) includes add-on support though. Not sure if/when that'll trickle down to Mobile Safari.

Please consider this for fw 3.x.x (if it's available there it will probably work in 4 also).

Thanks. iPhone 4 looks pretty good but before I get one I have to be 100% sure it can replicate the things my N900 does.

So far for tethering I found MyWi that seems to be some kind of joikuspot.

The other thing I care most about is multimedia, aka movies or tv shows that I usually get from various *ahem* flash *ahem* sites where greasemonkey plays a major role.
Even if that doesn't work, various avi files are a minimum.

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Originally Posted by Bec (Post 723749)

My friend uses MyWi and he swears by it... as long as you're close to a power supply or external battery packs. Otherwise, 2 wireless transmitters active will take toll on any handheld device...
Personally, I shelled out $90 for a Huawei E5830 (sic) which is a generic unlocked Mifi...

I'm guessing that 'unsupported' media files will also drain the battery more than supported ones (which benefits from hw acceleration support). So, there's a big incentive to use mp4 files to make use of the native video player.

Also... if you have to work with *nix on daily basis, then iOS gets immediate disqualification.. tunneling through ssh, maintaining multiple ssh connections while you multitask, remote X11.. are immediate no go, unless jailbroken. And even jailbroken, I've no idea how badly the battery drain would be with those 'rogue' apps running full speed in the background.

iOS4 will be released within days (tonight?) and the jailbreak tool is reportedly ready and will be released at the same time by the 'community'...

Why bother with Mifi if the phone can do it.

As for media I know there's mplayer and vlc but I don't know how well they work or if they can browse the file system - from what I've read so far you have to place the videos in custom folders to be able to access them :\

And, do we have hwa on mplayer with the N900?/ Are you sure mplayer/vlc don't have it on iPhone?

Also, is there no video app on the istore that can add support for more formats??

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Originally Posted by Bec (Post 723811)

The mifi serves as extra reserve of battery and I put a different 3G sim card on it (of different mobile operator) for backup. I actually bought the mifi for an iPad but ended up 'upgrading' to a 3G iPad in the end because I thought it was worth it..

No, I don't know about hwa status on mplayer/vlc4iphone. I've spent enough time eyeballing a small screen on my PalmOS days (they played the 3**x2** avi just fine, no mkv back then).. now I consume more text based media on my pocketables.

Huh, I just did a search on the AppStore for 'mkv' and found a couple of apps that streams matroska and this:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yxpla...373751560?mt=8
I guess it's a start of avi/mkv player for iPad... which is likely to make its way to iPhone 4. I thought Jobs put a ban against non-iTunes supported codec, but it appears that's not the case.

Could anyone with a hacked iPhone check vlc and Mplayer out with some default unaltered unconverted videos? gotten from the pirate bay shall we say?

I really don't get why this has to be so hard. It's not only a dealbraker but it's completely stupid.

iOS4 multitasking is pretty nifty. That is all.

Yeah, great innovation - LoL

Now tell me how it can be made to play standard videos.

finally, a phone that really is an iphone killer.