[Nottingham] Mobile experience: From 'stone age' to 'smart age'!

[Simon Sleaford]

Martin, which phone did you go for? I'm going to be buying an android phone
for my brother in the near future and would be interested what you plumped
for in the end.

Simon
On 22 Oct 2010 17:55, "Simon Osborne" <flibble at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 October 2010 16:15, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
>> Tethering to the netbook via a USB lead for internet access just simply
>> works! Just plug in, two taps to say share an internet connection, and
>> go! (Mandriva and Ubuntu known good, should be fine for others.)
>>
>> However, it looks like for whatever reasons, tethering by bluetooth or
>> WiFi is not automatically supported. I guess the phone companies want
>> more money for that...
>
> You can install applications like Barnacle Wifi Tether to give you the
> wifi tethering but these require that your device has been rooted. You
> can either do that with a custom ROM but the easiest solution is to
> use an application called Universal Androot. Once installed and run
> it'll root the device giving you complete control over the system.
>
> Simon
>
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