Incorrect, there's a project, spe-medialib, which lets the 6 available SPE cores of the Cell take care of the decoding. I use my PS3 as a HTPC, and it handles 1080P H264 and Theora just fine.
My mistake, i meant evdo not hsdpa, forgot you use that over there. Also, what i described is actually layer 3; routing between a private network on usb/wifi/bluetooth to its public connection using NAT to make the other machine seem to have the same IP as the Pre. Layer 2 would be if you somehow bridged the evdo and the private interface, which I don't believe can be done. (There is such as thing as PPP bridging, called BCP, but it is not implemented in the current Linux kernel)
Since you have network connectivity over the USB connection (using what i assume is the cdc_ether driver that most phones use for ethernet over usb) Its trivial to get full layer 2 connectivity, just enable ip forwarding on the pre with (as root): echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward, and then add a SNAT/MASQUERADE rule in the Pre's iptables (if it doesnt already have iptables, you can use the Debian arm binary) and the appropriate rule in the forward rule to allow traffic from your bluetooth/wifi/usb interface to go out on its hsdpa interface (probably ppp0 or something). Then just set a static ip on each end (pre and host computer, and you're done.
I still think using an Atom is a bad idea for this, a Cortex A8 would have given much better battery life, and negligible performance differences for a task as basic as web browsing.
They cannot legally distribute it as the NDA on the iphone App store (Although i believe this has been lifted now?) Conflicts with the GPL requirement to share their modifications
I for one, welcome our new robotic cockroach overlords.
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