Tethering For The Motorola Droid Is Near

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Verizon subscribers now have yet another reason to choose the Motorola Droid. While the current incarnation of Big Red's flagship smartphone is fairly hot, it lacks the ability to act as a modem for your notebook. Thankfully, GearLog has it on good authority that Verizon is about to offer tethering on the Droid.

Starting ”early” next year, subscribers who choose the “Broadband Access Connect” plan will be able to use their smartphone as a modem for an additional $15 a month. Of course, your current unlimited data plan won't apply to tethering. Users will have up to 5GB a month. Anything more than that will result in the usual steep penalties.

Posted on Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:25:22 CST | by Robert Evans

Epson Adds Tethered Shooting to P-6000 and P-7000 Photo Viewers

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Epson unveiled its P-6000 and P-7000 photo viewers a while back and has been adding new features to the devices ever since. The P-6000 and P-7000 photo viewers are devices that allow photographers to offload their photos to a larger hard drive for storage in the field.

The photo viewers are perfect for backing your photos up while you are shooting them. Epson announced last week that the P-6000 and P-7000 digital photo viewers have gained new features. Both of the devices can now be tethered to a DSLR camera via a USB cable. This allows the image taken to be stored to the camera's internal memory card and to the Epson photo viewer at the same time. Read more

Posted on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Epson Photo viewers Now Support Tethered Shooting

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Epson is probably best known by most of us for its line of printers and scanners. The company makes a range of other gear too, including home theater projectors and picturing viewing devices for pro photographers. Epson has announced that it's P-6000 and P-7000 multimedia photo viewers now feature tethering.

The ability to tether to the camera as the photographer is shooting allows them to be able to see their images immediately and save them as they are shot to streamline the backup process. The DSLR camera has to connect to the Epson viewers via a USB cable and the image is automatically saved to the viewer. Read more

Posted on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Why AT&T Hates Tethering

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AT&T has finally decided to allow tethering on the iPhone. Of course, they're charging an arm and a leg for it, and dragging their feet on actually launching the feature. It's pretty clear that AT&T is not happy about the idea of tethering. But why have they fought against it so fiercely while other mobile carriers let it go on without charging a dime?

To be honest, the fault lies with the iPhone owners themselves. They browse the Internet 40x as often as other smartphone owners. That means extra expenses for AT&T, especially since so many iPhone users have unlimited data plans.

Posted on Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:25:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

Palm Pre: Tether At Your Own Risk

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The Palm Pre is one of the most hackable smartphones on the planet. That's a design feature, not a flaw. Palm wants to compete with the iPhone, and one of the few areas where Apple is easy to beat is modifiability.

One of the coolest hacks we've seen for the Pre so far is the tethering modification that several enterprising Palm fans figured out early on. Sprint doesn't support tethering on the Pre, but they don't explicitly forbid it either. For a short time, guides to tethering the Pre popped up all over the Internet and all was well. Unfortunately, this golden age was not to last.

Posted on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:05:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

iPhone MMS and Tethering on AT&T coming in late Summer?

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Yesterday Apple announced that MMS and Tethering are a go with the new iPhone OS 3.0. Only issue for US iPhone customers is AT&T as they do not support both features when they launch on June 17th.
BoyGeniusReport says that they heard from a source AT&T will need until late Summer to release MMS on the iPhone. Apparently they have an issue with manually removing Opt Out MMS codes.
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Posted on Tue, 9 Jun 2009 05:31:26 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AT&T not supporting iPhone tethering in new iPhone 3.0 OS

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Apple is right now presenting the new iPhone 3.0 OS at the WWDC 2009 and confirmed that it will support tethering. Tethering is a seamless experience on the iPhone and part of the OS.
22 carriers around the world will support tethering at launch. According to the live WWDC 2009 coverage at MacRumors AT&T is not among them. Read more

Posted on Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:12:24 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

iPhone 3.0 supports USB Tethering unofficially

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It is the most normal thing you would want to do with a 3G phone. Connect it via a USB cable to your notebook and use it as a modem. The iPhone said no to this unless you jailbreak it. Now a developer discovered that the new iPhone 3.0 firmware has USB Tethering built-in.
Let's hope it stays and carriers give up on the idea of selling us an iPhone and a 3G data card. Read more

Posted on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:57:11 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Macworld 2009 Rumor: AT&T to announce iPhone tethering Plan

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The Apple keynote at the Macword 2009 is only 11 hours away and the last minute Macworld 2009 rumors are flying around.
One new rumor is about a current weak point of the iPhone 3G. Currently you cannot use (officially) the iPhone 3G as modem to get your notebook online. TUAW says that they heard that AT&T is finally announcing a iPhone tethering plan at the Macworld 2009. Read more

Posted on Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:05:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

iPhone 3G Tethering coming says AT&T

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One of the annoying disadvantages of the iPhone 3G today is that you cannot use it to connect a notebook to the internet.
Now AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega told TechCrunch's Michael Arrington at the Web 2.0 Summit that iPhone tethering is coming soon.
AT&T did not reveal if there will be an extra charge for this feature. In my value understanding using a mobile phone as a modem should be free and covered by the data plan I already have. This is how it works here in Germany with my old Nokia N80 on O2. Read more

Posted on Fri, 7 Nov 2008 00:15:48 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

iPhone 3G Tethering for Notebooks not possible?

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Using a 3G phone as modem for a notebook when needed is something I totally assume to be possible as I do it all the time here in Germany. Now a report that AT&T is not allowing future iPhone 3G owners to use the iPhone 3G to get their notebooks connected according to a widely circulated story on iPhoneAtlas.

AT&T is offering special modem (PAM) plans for BlackBerry and Windows smartphones. It is not clear yet what Apple and AT&T would do to prevent iPhone 3G owners from using it as a modem via Bluetooth for instance. Read more

Posted on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:26:44 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr