Online Tethering Axed By Verizon with the New Android OS Droid Update

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One of the best features about the newest operating system of Google’s flagship Android, which is also known as Froyo, is the fact that it’s able to create a mobile hotspot for users to be able to connect their devices, laptop or other, to the 3G data… wait… not for Droid customers.
Just as Froyo is about to be rolled out to the Droid, which is the top selling Android phone to date, Verizon has stepped in and stated that they’ll be systematically stripping the tethering from the Droid’s version of the new Froyo platform. Verizon made the claim that the Droid hardware isn’t able to support this feature. They state that with the tethering there’s no connection on the computer side that’s going to allow you to be able to tether the device. So their answer is that the tethering option simply isn’t a part of this update.
There are currently only two phones that are running Froyo aka Android 2.2:
• Google’s Nexus One
• HTC EVO – HTC’s first 4G phone
Those devices definitely have no difficulty tethering, running that mobile hotspot feature.
Both Verizon and Motorola confirmed that the Droid X is going to be able to pull of the mobile hotspot or tethering feature. Unfortunately that’s not much of a consolation to the millions of people that have purchased the top selling Droid, including the new customers that now have to wait to fulfill their two year agreement before they’re able to make the upgrade to the Droid X.
Obviously the Droid is still going to get the new interface along with all of the other functionality that Froyo is going to bring like that of better power consumption, full flash mobile support and so on.
The update for the Droid is expected to be rolling out within the next week.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 at 3:31 pm by Bryan Bradshaw and is filed under Cell Phones. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.