[bluespot]

Backgrounder with AIM...

AIM will continue to run in the background, stay connected indefinitely (even switching between different cell towers and wifi), and will provide audible and or vibrate notification of a new message (depending on the vibrate switch position). I've only been using this for about half a day, but so far it hasn't seemed to kill my batterly life too badly.

Plus, playing pandora while browsing the web in safari just puts a smile on my face.

I wish I had this months ago! IMO, Backgrounder is *the* best 3rd party app for the iPhone and completely justifies jailbreaking all on it's own.

EDIT: After some more testing, the network connection does seem to go to sleep after a while. Possibly insomnia could offer a solution...