It can be a tough sell because it's almost always forced genital mutilation carried out on defenceless infants violating their human rights and causing irreversible damage or done by pressuring men into it without telling them the downsides.

Same here and the phone runs great.

I also have a G1 running 2.3.4 and it works great. Using it for dev as well.

So this is like autojump? (https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump/wiki)

Not exactly. autojump performs a search and automatically switches to the most highly used destination. jump autosuggests as you type several results (think google suggest, or alfred, except in the console).