http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/ Engadget Comments for iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4 includes AT&T tethering option 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/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
If not then I won't use it. Still though its nice to have it as an option.]]>May 18th 2010 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/

Harder.]]>May 18th 2010 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
Lol I can only do so much praying.

Is teethering on android on verizon free? Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think it is...

I'm genuinely asking though.]]>May 18th 2010 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/If you have a rooted droid, yes but there are hundreds of tethering apps in the market that work just as well. I've been using it for awhile and no one has called or sent me a nasty email, yet anyway.

2.2 is supposed to have tethering integrated. Now, whether or not Verizon will allow its use is another thing.]]>May 18th 2010 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
You're full of crap.

@ PBB

key word being "rooted". I don't want to nor should I HAVE to root my device to get that feature. If its there its there. If its not then I'm not going to bother myself and void the warranty to get that small insignificant feature.

More importantly is there OFFICIAL teethering from Verizon? And if so how much is it?

A simple question deserves a simple answer....]]>May 18th 2010 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/att charges $60 bucks for data with tethering but I hear from some att rep that for iphone it could be $70 for data and tethering? ]]>May 18th 2010 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
No, you just jailbreak. Ha. Froyo=tethering=tomorrow.]]>May 18th 2010 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
Oh boy.... There's the London Exchange we all know and hate...]]>May 18th 2010 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
You android fanboys/Apple Haters honestly expect me to believe that it will be $70 a month for data and teethering?

IF it is then I won't be getting it. More importantly I think thats a fucking joke of a price. And I HOPE no one signs up for this service.

However I honestly think that you guys are making this up. I'll wait for OFFICIAL word from AT&T.

And more importantly what is Verizon charging for data and teethering together?]]>May 18th 2010 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
Also, yeah, I'd call it official tethering with root from verizon, if you use tether and they catch you they will officially charge you for the data ;)]]>May 18th 2010 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/you could just jailbreak then download mywi and make your iPhone into a hotspot. ]]>May 18th 2010 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
Thank You and I Fling Poo for giving me a STRAIGHT ANSWER.]]>May 18th 2010 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
AT&T will be charging 60/month for this "small insignificant feature"?

Engadget posted this and got over 100 comments within a few minutes for a "small insignificant feature"?

It would seem as though, you Sir, are full of shit today. And seemingly, insignificant. ]]>May 18th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
It's quite nice.]]>May 18th 2010 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/beta4 has a new option that will decrease your battery a lot faster]]>May 19th 2010 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
...I'm honestly wondering what you all are talking about? I've been able to do tethering for free directly out of the box. No rooting. HTC Hero on Sprint with a little PDANet free action.

What's the big deal about tethering? Any Android phone should be able to run PDANet.]]>May 19th 2010 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/Just pay $9.99 for MyWi (a one time payment) on Cydia or Rock, jailbreak your phone and voila, you are set for life and screw all those blood suckers carriers.]]>May 19th 2010 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/That's right under the enable 3G option. Was already there]]>May 19th 2010 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/Yeah, pdanet or easy tether, no root necessary.
Wireless tethers are nice, and don't get me wrong I'll use them again, but I am not sharing the connection and either jailbroke iphone or rooted android battery doesn't last long with serious wifi tethering. ]]>May 19th 2010 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 19th 2010 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 19th 2010 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 19th 2010 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
Just let us have tethering already.]]>May 19th 2010 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://j.mp/os-4-0-by-iphone]]>May 19th 2010 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/Or you could just get a phone with Windows Mobile, comes with its own tethering app called internet connection Sharing. I have used my Xperia X1i on AT&T to tether for months now. I have never heard a peep from AT&T. However with the news of tethering coming to Iphone, you can bet that every broke Iphone user trying to save money, will try to replace their DSL / Cable Modem with their Iphone tethered to their computer. Then of course they leave bit torrent running day and night, and bring AT&T's network to its knees. Today I took a proactive response, and moved my service to T-Mobile, and got and HD2. Hate to be on AT&T network when tethering hits the Iphone.]]>May 19th 2010 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
As long as a laptop card is $60 a month, tethering on a $30 smartphone data plan will cost you an extra $30 a month. If smartphone tethering was free, everyone with a laptop card would dump their $60 a month plan and sign up for a $30 a month smartphone plan and just tether.

I could see AT&T maybe dropping the tethering fee to $20 - $15 a month, to "reward" you for having both a voice plan and a data plan with them, since a laptop card does not require a voice plan. Tethering on Verizon is only $25 more I think, so it's $5 cheaper to tether than to have a laptop card with Verizon.

As others have said, get some 3rd party tethering software and just don't overuse it. A good rule of thumb is keep it below 5 GB or they might snoop your data to see if you're tethering to a PC.]]>May 19th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
So using PDAnet on Android, does it create a true wifi access point or do you have to connect via ad-hoc?


thanks]]>May 19th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
I was tethering with my Nexus One on AT&T with PDAnet and it was working great. PDAnet isn't a WiFi tethering option, but it is a USB and bluetooth tethering option. I would stick with USB as bluetooth's speed is slow and you don't get good speeds on AT&T's 3G network. The best thing about PDAnet is that you don't have to root your phone. I've tried to install PDAnet on AT&T's Motorola Backflip phone and it won't work. AT&T has crippled that phone enough where it doesn't work.]]>May 19th 2010 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
The big deal is iPhone on AT&T = Fail up until now. While you and I have been enjoying free tethering for years with MANY older devices, Apple fanboys on AT&T never had a legitimate way. I say on AT&T because While I have Sprint, I also have an iPhone for traveling and I have an English prepaid simcard from 02 last year I got the simcard and it has the tethering option! Yes a Prepaid sim showed that option on my iPhone running 3.1
also while I was in england I had picture mail aswel. On 3.1 firmware. These small facts showed me instantly how crap AT&T really is lol. A yr later they released 3.1.2 for picture mail! Ha I had it already in England with a damn prepaid card! Now further down the line with 4.0 we get the Tethering haha this is why iPhone needs to be on another US carrier. I hope Verizon does end up getting a version and compete with crap AT&T perhaps then AT&T will be more on point with their slack network and crap plans.]]>May 19th 2010 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/you can get it for free if you download the sinfuliphonerepo works great!! ]]>May 19th 2010 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/In other news, Hell just froze over. The devil is serving ice cold beer...]]>May 18th 2010 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
Free? or is the Devil charging insane prices like Vancouver downtown clubs?

Anyways, I had been tethering on my iPhone for a long time...before I switched to Android, and continued tethering...still for free...]]>May 18th 2010 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
Oh, and I didn't jailbreak...it is free on Telus and Bell...they just treat it like regular bandwidth...and I know a lot of European carriers have it for free as well, some others charge extra but still have it available...in Korea, it is also free...]]>May 18th 2010 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 19th 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/May 18th 2010 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
the stock iphone has been capable of tethering for the past year AT&T has just been blocking it. ]]>May 18th 2010 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/18/iphone-os-4-0-beta-4-includes-atandt-tethering-option/
Tethering on the iPhone has been available in just about every other country except US...AT&T is just being a giant...you know...]]>May 18th 2010 10:10PM