The fallout from Apple’s epic WWDC keynote continues, while other tech companies are even daring to venture out into the shadow cast by the new iPhone this morning, so catch everything that’s going on in the lunchtime lowdown right here.
Tagged ‘tethering’
One of the big new iPhone OS 3.0 features confirmed at the WWDC keynote was tethering: from later this month, you’ll be able to hook your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3G S up to a computer and pipe that 3G/HSDPA goodness straight through. But we didn’t hear what the state of play would be with the iPhone network in the UK, O2. Now we know though: find out when you’ll be able to lash your iPhone to your laptop, and for how much, right here!
Google has stepped in to remove several apps from the Android Market that ‘tether’ an Android mobile to a laptop or desktop – enabling a Mac or PC to access the internet via the phone’s data connection.
iPhone OS 3.0 isn’t even out yet and people are already finding that it is packed with surprises. A beta release of the new iPhone OS has revealed some choice features that Apple hasn’t announced yet.
Want to connect your notebook to the web using your iPhone 3G as a modem? Well, according to AT&T’s Ralph De La Vega, you won’t have to wait too much longer – tethering is finally heading to Apple’s mobile.
If you needed another reason to slap down your cash and buy a T-Mobile G1, how about this: clever developers have cooked up a way to use the phone as a wireless broadband dongle for your laptop.
Tethering a laptop to a phone is a quick and simple way to get your computer on the internet, and now it seems Apple’s bringing the technology to the iPhone.