Ask Slashdot: Which Android Phone (and Carrier) For WiFi Proxy Support?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @05:34AM from the good-luck-with-all-that dept.

frisket writes "My current phone contract is about to run out, and I'm due a phone upgrade. My HTC Hero has been fine except for the notorious lack of Android proxy support for wireless connections, so I want a new Android phone which provides this. None of the phone companies hereabouts (Ireland) seems to know anything about this, and the forums offer conflicting advice. Is it true that wifi proxy support is disabled to force users to use their phone company's IP connection? What choices do I have (if any)?"

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Official ticket by shutdown+-p+now · 2011-10-18 06:30 · Score: 4, Informative

See this ticket - there are many user reports on which phones have it working and which don't in the comments:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1273
Samsung Galaxy S2 in particular supports it with updates (2.3.4+), and is otherwise the single most awesome Android phone on the market today (at least until Nexus Prime is officially announced tomorrow).