Yesterday I closed my Sprint Mobile Broadband account. Right now, I’m writing this post in a coffee shop in Washington DC. I’m not on wi-fi because I’m tethered to my AT&T 3G Internet connection through my new iPhone 3GS.
This isn’t exactly new, but it just got a lot easier. If you don’t want to do [...]
While AT&T is dragging its feet on official tethering support for iPhone customers, that doesn’t mean you can’t do it now with a relatively simple workaround involving a custom carrier settings file.
AT&T will reportedly offer tethering with the new iPhone 3.0 software. What that means is that you will be able to use your iPhone as a modem for your laptop or netbook while you’re on the go.
Telstra has secured its first full QWERTY Nokia, the E71. The E71 is just 10mm thick, supports quad-band GSM and HSDPA 3G (3.6 Mbps), syncs with Microsoft Exchange, edits Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint formats, and actually supports USB tethering for use as a 3G modem.
Seth over at False Dichotomies has heard from Google regarding their decision to remove tethering apps from the Android Market:
We inadvertently unpublished your application for all mobile providers; if you like, we can restore your app so that all Android Market users outside the T-Mobile US network will have access to your application.