Tethering Is Exhilarating (With the Nexus One)

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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iPhone Tethering

[whisper_jeff]

...on which he basically gives up, for the perfectly decent reason of not wanting to jailbreak his iPhone

Did he buy the special-ed version of the iPhone? The iPhone offers tethering. Easy and effortless. Without jailbreaking.

Not to mention that article was one of the biggest wastes of my time and I'm sitting in Iron Forge waiting for my dungeon queue to pop...

Re:Android sucks.

[Anonymous Coward]

We bother because we are not gay mac fanboys like you ac.

Well here is my horror story.

[vosester]

I the got the iPhone 3G on 02 in the UK when it come out. I finished my contract, well it was canceled for non payment, for been three week late with a payment, which I payed off the following week, effectively early terminating, costing me £280.

So 02 offers an unlock, So I put in my IMEI number in there web system and nothing, I try again still nothing. So I ring up customer service which is awful, and ask them to unlock it, they say I have to go to the shop where I bought it. So I go and ask, they say I have to ring customer services. By now I am fuming with rage.

I ring up customer service and asked for an unlock, they say I am not in the system, I give account details and three months later still not unlock.

I believe that when my contract was closed, My IMEI number was removed from the system.
I keep ringing customer service and I have to keep explain my situation.

This is Apple’s and 02’s fault for there stupid unlock system which can not be done locally (Some would say that’s a good system)

Now I am on T-mobile and I can not use the iPhone’s, inbuilt tethering.
Because my phone is not unlocked and requires signed setting from the carrier, which i don’t think T-mobile provide.

Basically getting anything done on the iPhone has become so much trouble that I am done with it and I am getting a N900.

It is 2010 tethering should not be this much of a problem, data is data. It is simple greed.

A big shout out to all the people behind the jailbraking and unlocking tools.

With out you guys my phone would be an over priced paper weight.

Re:Android sucks.

[ScrewMaster]

No apps. Crappy screen. Violates dozens of Apple patents. OS based on Lin-sux. Why bother?

I always knew that my general distaste for Apple Computer and its afficionados was based in fact. Thank you for the confirmation.

Thanks for the trollmod, fanboy.

Re:Android sucks.

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Thanks for the trollmod, fanboy.

Hate begets fanboyism.

Re:They don't understand jailbreaking

[Totenglocke]

Or maybe it's Apple's habit of bricking jailbroken phones with updates?

So you simply wait to update until you know that the latest update is jailbroken. How hard is that? If you can't be bothered to learn that you shouldn't update until you know that it won't break it, then you shouldn't have a smartphone in the first place.