http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/ Engadget Comments for DROID tethering? It's coming early 2010, says Verizon http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/i.e. Keyboard could be better, screen (and lack of multitouch) could be improved, and overall design isn't really top-notch.

Only reason that I have left is that DROID has android 2.0 and that's still good enough for me to get in line this friday to get it.. but it's barely good enogh..

]]>Nov 4th 2009 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 3:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM1JSFXnQpg]]>Nov 4th 2009 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Thank you! Phandroid shows some actual investigative work with that video.

I don't see why Engadget keeps perpetuating this false information. Did we start defining multi-touch as pinch to zoom in the default browser? The way I heard the Engadget writers talk in the last podcast, using phrases like "I tried to pinch, I tried the keyboard..." as if that is a full test really makes me question the journalist rigor of this site.]]>Nov 4th 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/
I'm all for Android and open-source, but they really need to get it on better-looking hardware if they want to compete with Apple on an industrial-design level.]]>Nov 4th 2009 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/

Not only poor quality made phone but notice how dim the screen is.
I have done side by side screen brightness comparison with so
called OLED screens against iPhone and I got say iPhone tops
them all. Go see for yourself!


]]>Nov 4th 2009 5:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/
Engadget are trying SO hard to build up hype with articles upon articles and comments such as this "We're pretty sure that missing functionality won't be lessening the early adopter crowds too much". Its almost funny how hard they are trying to get people interested.

Perhaps im just a negative nancy but although the DROID looks like a nice device its just not worth all the attention Engadget are giving it. Other manufacturers are releasing devices just as good if not better and they arent getting half the attention.

I just dont get it...]]>Nov 4th 2009 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 3:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/
Now they are trying developing much hype for SE X10/Rachael , lets see whether they do the same for

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/11/sony_ericsson_kurara_-_a_closer_look.html

I bet they wont , coz its running Symbian S60 v5]]>Nov 4th 2009 5:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 3:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/
Why can't these companies let the users use the internet however they want, since they are PAYING FOR IT, anyway?

I mean, if your network can't handle the traffic either:
1. limit the speed (so that you get max 2Mb instead of 7Mb, for example)
2. put more restricting data caps (like 2GB instead of 5GB)
3. make the exceeding data more expensive
4. make the connection slower after a certain amount of data and/or just block the internet use

And also the p2p use can be limited if you just limit the number of connections or whatever...

But stop annoying people with these "fair use" policies. You have all the tools to make it "fair", the users shouldn't have to worry about it.]]>Nov 4th 2009 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/
Not only does it say that tethering IS coming, but in no way is this a matter of "fair use" (how the hell are you defining "fair use" here? because clearly it doesn't make sense to the fair use I've come to understand, nor does it seem relevant) like you claim, but looks more like a matter of getting it to work properly on official level. I must say, at least they responded reasonably: Announcing, before launch, a timeframe of when to expect it after launch. You couldn't get that from Apple/AT&T, could you?

You've rushed to judgement, and you lack any sense of patience. Verizon has lots of problems, but you sound more like a brat who will kvetch at the slightest error. Go back to mama.]]>Nov 4th 2009 6:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/
But I'm still curious as to why tethering won't be available immediately. I didn't see an explanation either in the summary or in the linked article.

I'm not in the US (you might be used to different practices there), but I never had any restrictions about internet usage, tethering or whatever, as long as I stayed in the limits of the download data. So it seems normal to expect that.


Oh, and: I _DON'T GIVE A FUCK_ about Apple or AT&T. Why do you even feel the need to bring this up?
So what, if AT&T are worse? Does that mean you can't criticize another company because they are less bad?]]>Nov 4th 2009 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/
FINLAND
Sonera OY, only iPhone retailer in Finland.
There was an offer for mobile internet when you bought a contract and a 3G device, that you'd get 3,6Mbits (in theory) max. download speed 3G connection widely around Finland, or at least EDGE (and GPRS in poor places).
All for 9 euros 90 cents a month.
..not capped. I used 19 gigabytes of data in the first month of use.

Did I mention tethering? Right now? I mean, it has been in here for a while. In fact, as soon as 3GS came out.]]>Nov 4th 2009 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/
Is this a software issue or the carrier?

Also, its funny how data is charged on ATT. I remember paying... $20 a month for data on the slvr, $40 a month for data on the 8525, and now $15/mo on the 6700. No caps on data, just different rates for different phones I guess.]]>Nov 4th 2009 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.zjtechlive.com/test-drive-google-android-os-on-microsoft-windows/]]>Nov 4th 2009 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/
1. You really think the Droid is a good phone, but you don't need a real keyboard or at least they could remove that ugly trackpad.

2. You was really excited abot the Xperia 10, but got pissed about the Q1/2010 release and the fact, that it will ship with Android 1.6

3. The only hope you now have is that HTC will release soon the Phone of your dreams, which is basicly a HD2 with Android (2.0 !!!!) and Sense UI]]>Nov 4th 2009 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/iPhone.......]]>Nov 4th 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/No Multitouch 100,000 apps n games droid doesn't. ]]>Nov 4th 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/
Isn't that what net neutrality is about? Not discriminating among applications of a data connection! I thought Verizon supported net neutrality.]]>Nov 4th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/
There's an app for that.]]>Nov 4th 2009 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Not AT&T and iPhone. Block apps? Lock down the OS?
You don't really think we'd pay more for worse coverage and a closed phone did you?]]>Nov 4th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/Nov 4th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/]]>Nov 7th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/droid-tethering-its-coming-early-2010-says-verizon/http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/10219-tether-capability-android-wifi-tether-wireless-tether-root-users.html

WiFi tethering with a root and a new kernel]]>Dec 21st 2009 12:30PM