21 responses to “The world needs a Droid to iPad tethering app”

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   Arpit Bawa April 10th, 2010 at 09:22

   That sounds awesome. Hats off to the guy who developed the Barnacle WiFI Tether.At least you can tether even though it requires rooting. I wonder what Verizon has to say to this.

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   Courtney M. Cronk April 10th, 2010 at 10:34

   Just another reason for my boyfriend to want to switch from AT&T to Verizon.

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   Colby Beacham April 10th, 2010 at 11:34

   I’m caught between getting the iphone and the droid. My contract ends soon but I really don’t want to switch over to At&t hopefully apple finally announces iphone for verizon but if not droid tethering plus ipad wouldn’t be half bad. Heres for hoping.

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   Daniel Johnson April 10th, 2010 at 15:27

   That would be a great idea to get an App to help with that. I dont have the expenses to get either a droid of an I-Phone. It would be a tough decision, but I would probably go with an I-Phone!

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   Andrew Huff April 10th, 2010 at 18:38

   I’ve heard rumors of Apple talking with Verizon about putting the iPhone on the Verizon network. Perhaps wait it out? I would like to see the Droid and iPhone on the Sprint network. Sprint recently announced a $69.99 that includes unlimited data, text, and voice (see here: http://anymobileanytime.sprint.com/?id9=SEM_Google_P_Freedom_Plan)

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   Austin collins April 11th, 2010 at 01:28

   Apple is becoming like Microsoft so they will find every way to suck all of your money out of your wallet

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   Jaideep Singh April 11th, 2010 at 06:36

   Hank, From what I know, there aren’t apps out there that can do this without rooting (which isn’t bad and too hard to do). Anyway, found an app called Proxoid which acts as a proxy server. http://code.google.com/p/proxoid/
   Also… iPad is now jailbroken too!

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   Soroosh Karamyar April 11th, 2010 at 18:03

   Sounds like reasonable desires and questions. I can see the competitive race between AT&T and Verizon solving these problems.
   If not I highly recommend just jail breaking your iPhone.

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   Casey Piquette April 11th, 2010 at 18:42

   Verizon is supposed to get the iPhone in a year. In fact, I believe they are waiting until Verizon upgrades to 4G…which honestly their 3G is still better than AT&T’s.

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    Matt Kompara April 12th, 2010 at 03:38

    That’s something that would be really useful, I can see how verizon would profit from such a thing, but At&T would probably come out behind…

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    Damon Ward April 12th, 2010 at 09:48

    I have been hoping for an app or some way to tether from my iPhone, because I don’t want to risk jail breaking it. This, and not being able to run multiple apps at a time are really my only complaints, which are not enough for me to make the switch to Verizon.

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    Joseph Mecca April 12th, 2010 at 16:04

    As if AT&T won’t retort with the a launch if they see their profit margin decline. I’ll wait this one out and see what comes of it before I start switching services.

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    Aditya Chaudhari April 12th, 2010 at 20:49

    I have a Droid and cant wait to use this for my phone!

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    Jack Kennedy April 13th, 2010 at 08:03

    From what I’ve seen in the android 2.1 framework this isn’t possible without rooting it. Hopefully Google realizes this opportunity and builds something in without compromising the managed software.

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    Byron Young April 13th, 2010 at 08:27

    Great questions, these are interesting because Verizon needs to be able to enter the Apple market. Whether that is through applications to the Ipad or bring the Iphone to the Verizon network, this company must enter the market because of the popularity of the Iphone.

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    Josh Graves April 13th, 2010 at 10:00

    sounds like a good idea, im still not quite sure what the whole “jailbreaking” thing is, but something non-related i think the 30 bucks/month/400 bucks/year is a little much for a droid. id love to own one but not for that. i would imagine paying an extra 30 bucks a month for another “tethering” app for an ipad is not worth it. do you really need to lug around a full size ipad AND have full access internet?

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    Blake Bronowicki April 13th, 2010 at 10:00

    The battle continues between the Droid and Apple. The two monsters are continually battling to prove dominance in the market place. If for some reason Google decided to join up with Apple, the world might come to a halt with technology.

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    Thomas Gick April 13th, 2010 at 12:27

    Great idea, AT&T and Verizon are going to have to jump on this if they hope to stay ahead of the competition

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    Beck Warwick April 13th, 2010 at 17:00

    I’ve heard that at&t’s contract with mac is up next year and rumor has it verizon is moving in. does anyone know if there is any validity to these rumors?

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    Curtis Brackett April 14th, 2010 at 19:37

    The Barnacle WIFI Tethering app is really cool; even though it requires rooting it is still better than nothing. Im sure something new and improved will be released soon enough that won’t reqire rooting and will satisfy Hank’s needs.

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