Google To Add Tethering, Wifi Hotspot To Android 2.2 Froyo

If this is true, it will remove the only reason I would deviate from the standard android build.

JIT, Flash, Wifi Hotspot, hooray for the update \o/<p>Android is really moving fast, i think.

Google seems to go all out to promote android, others be dammed: First with their free satnav (making TomTom lose 20% of it's value), now with tethering. While I love tethering, I wonder what carriers will think of it. I can imagine this backfiring, with carriers less likely to push tethering-supported devices that eat into their (more profitable) laptop packages.

I'm an iPhone user seriously considering a switch to Android due to the big "we must control your device" stick Apple has up its collective ass.<p>I've read posts saying that some Android phones can't be upgraded to newer OSs, and that people are waiting for certain features to show up on their device's special build. How true is that, and how practical is it to ignore and install fresh new releases from the Android team? Does doing that void any warranties? What about installing a customized build? Most critically, is any kind of jailbreaking or exploitation of bugs needed to get builds not released by the manufacturer onto the device?

This is great news, and rather unexpected. I'm running the cyanogen firmware on my nexus one specifically for the wifi hotspot app. (the multicolored trackball is just a bonus).<p>I'll probably stick to the default firmware once 2.2 comes out.<p>The only other thing that cyanogen adds that I'd miss, is a 1-100 indicator on the battery charge icon in the notification area.

So Android and the Pre both have wifi hotspots, but iPhone doesn't. I had hoped they'd add this for OS 4.0, but of course that might hurt sales of the iPad 3G (and all the free marketing it generates from mobile networks).

I have a Palm Pixi Plus on Verizon and can turn it into a wifi router by launching a built in app. It works absolutely flawlessly.<p>Verizon has recently made this feature free for webOS devices (ie. Pre/Pixi Plus).

No way this is gonna make its way to T-Mobile. :(<p>Thankfully there's Pdanet and others, but I surely would like it as a cleaner, built-in feature.

Why wasn't it included to begin with? My Nokia N78 has had tethering and Wifi hotspot (with Joikuspot) since day one (got it two years ago).

Great news for android users. bad news for PDANET for android. Now users can access internet without paying for an app.

Tethering is inevitable... but so is the end of all-you-can-eat mobile data plans.

WiFi tethering already works great for me using the app that requires root.