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Droid wireless tethering?! Maybe it is time to switch...

I hope to god people aren't making decision to buy an andriod or iphone based on tethering.

If this is the reason and you only used it like 10 minutes during the year. Then...SLAP!!!!!!!

Make this a bullet point in many pro's and con's when comparing an Android device to an Iphone Device.

Please Please be smart buyers. something majority of consumers ARE NOT.
 
People should buy what works for them. Test each out in the first 30-days and return if either one doesn't work for you. It is hard to switch from an iPhone to an Android device if you are dependent on the OS. Android is getting there but still a few years away, IMO. If you are just starting out then either device will work for you.

I can currently native tether with my iPhone by being jailbroken. I still barely use more than 1 GB a month in data total so it won't alert AT&T. It just comes in handy when a wi-fi signal isn't available.
 
gloss said:
The iPhone's lack of tethering is entirely due to AT&T's lack of confidence in their own network capacity. You can jailbreak an iPhone and run tethering over WiFi, Bluetooth, or USB right this second and it works like an absolute charm, so the hardware's not an issue. Blame the carrier.
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Exactly.
The rest of the carriers that have the iphone offer tethering. Its an AT&T thing.
They also took forever to provide us with a simple feature such as MMS while every other carrier in the world had it available on the iphone launch day. AT&T took an additional 9 months or so to make it available.
 
I'm pretty sure you have to hack a droid to get wireless tethering. You can do the same with the iPhone via jailbreaking.

Now, neither providers allow free tethering.
 
The wireless tethering option wouldn't benefit me that much. I tryed it with Mywi when i jailbroke my iphone which was a utter disaster when i used it with my ipad.

I realized that i don't need to be connected everywhere i go and sometimes it's better not to be connected everywhere
 
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