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Tethering Is Exhilarating (With the Nexus One)

Posted by kdawson on from the free-to-roam dept.

timothy found this link (hat-tip to Tim O'Reilly) to a paean to the joys of tethering. "In a short post, Steve Souders explores the current state of tethering 3G connections via iPhone (on which he basically gives up, for the perfectly decent reason of not wanting to jailbreak his iPhone) and the Nexus One, with which he has great success. His writeup serves as a micro-tutorial ('use PdaNet's Android app') as well as an endorsement."

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  1. Re:Android sucks. by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks for the trollmod, fanboy.

    Hate begets fanboyism.

    How did you go from "general distaste" to "hate"?

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  2. Re:Android sucks. by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How did you go from "general distaste" to "hate"?

    Thanks for the trollmod, fanboy.

    Was it your expectation that you wouldn't get some sort of reply from that? That it'd shut him up?

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  3. Re:I don't really see what the big fear is. by waa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    isn't jailbreaking an iPhone easier than rooting Android? No. I used an autorooter on my G1. Jacked the phone in to the USB, ran the program ... and I was rooted. I don't know how much easier it can get, really.

    Yes, it CAN get easier:
    Not on an Android, but on my Nokia N900 it's like this:
    Install rootsh app via app manager, then open terminal and type:
    ~ $ sudo gainroot [enter]
    /home/user #

    :)

    Gotta love an open linux-based cell phone/mobile computer/internet tablet - or whatever they are calling these things these days. )

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    Windows is the question.
    The answer is "NO."