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What good is all that 3G goodness on T-Mobile’s 1700Mhz AWS network when all it does is serve up wireless data on your T-Mobile G1? Okay, sure, the T-Mobile G1 hums along quite nicely with its 3G data connection, but wouldn’t it be nice to share that 3G-love with your laptop?
Of course if would. Enter the first T-Mobile G1 tethering solution!
An Android developer has come out with what is fast becoming the first viable T-Mobile G1 tethering tool that will allow you to use your T-Mobile G1 as a wireless 3G data modem. Admittedly, the G1 tethering solution isn’t as easy as tethering an iPhone 3G, but with a little command line work and Android SDK installing, you’ll be zipping along T-Mobile’s 1700Mhz 3G network on your laptop!
The developer Graham Stewart, notes that this shouldn’t really be considered a legitimate tethering solution because it lacks the ability to use the G1′s 3G data connection outside of web browsing (true tethering solutions allow you to use a wireless data connection with any application – email, IM, web browsing, etc.). Still, we have to give it up to Stewart for putting his skills to good use and bringing G1 road-warriors a tethering solution!
Find instructions for tethering your T-Mobile G1′s 3G data connection to your laptop here. Be warned, you’ll have to be comfortable with the Android SDK and a bit of command line work to pull this off.
T-Mobile G1 tethering tutorial
[Via: Lifehacker]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
