2.2 OS supports wi-fi tether, but most carriers remove it in their customs builds... so root! There are apps that provide wireless tether, but all the ones I have seen for older versions of the OS require a rooted phone. If you don't mind the corded tether (1.6 OS) or Bluetooth (2.1 OS) PdaNet has clients for both windows and mac and has worked fine for me not rooted. EasyTether connects to windows and ubuntu 10.4.
3G and 4G does not mean the same thing to all carriers. Do some homework. I wish I had a good resource for you right now. I went cheap with a Zio (running 1.6) on Cricket when my iPhone was stolen, but I have my eye on the Vibrant from T-Mo but the Droid X looks like the freakin' Caddy of droids. Cricket has a new mobile hotspot with no contract(double check that). Sprint requires a 2yr contract with their hotspot, which is just to long for that kind of product. Good luck! On Oct 18, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Brandon Stout <[email protected]> wrote: > PHP friends, > > I'm finally going to get an android. I'm on Verizon now, but I'm > willing to change plans. I see Sprint has the only 4g plans, unless I > missed something, but 4g isn't as important as being able to tether > the internet to my laptop. I've read a few places that you can > replace the OS on at least some phones with the tethering lockouts > removed. Any recommendations from any of you for an android I can do > this with? > > -- > Thank you, > > Brandon > > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
