iPhone as a modem?

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As the title really. I used to have an HTC Touch HD and this was easy to use as a modem - same with my old LG Viewty. O2 would sometimes get a bit annoyed about it (write a letter if useage was too high) but otherwise it was fine.

Is it possible to do the same with an iPhone? I'm looking at the new 3GS.
 
It has been announced as a feature in OS3, but no specifics from O2. I'd bet that they'll find a way to charge extra for the service.
 
And how will they know if you are "tethered" or not?

If they are doing it by user agent, then I can see a lot of people tethering with masquerading browsers :D
 
If you jail break it I suspect there will be a programme to do so. Mind you if you had got a non iphone you could do this with ease.;):p
 
Greedy O2 wanting to do tethering with bolt-on's. I would not pay that, I personally would hardly ever use it, so would just want it as a backup. So most people will end up jail breaking or hacking their iPhone. O2 should have used it as a marketing tool and offered for free, specially as the new iPhone due does not offer much more over the old 3G iPhone for potential new customers.
 
Other phones can do this without a bolt-on. whats to stop you taking your sim out of the iPhone and plonking it into another phone(my N95 for example), and use that as the modem? Ive been using my N95 like this for a while now when Im working away from home. Like everyone else I was waiting for the new iPhone before upgrading. This has really screwed it for the iPhone in my opinion. I can do what Ive just described, but why should I have to!?!

If the unlimited internet bolt-on for every other phone will let you do it, why hold the iPhone back with a seperate over priced tethering bolt-on... ridiculous!
 
My wife is happily using her iPhone 3g as a modem and does so every single day.

Of course its jailbroken, unlocked and she's on Vodafone, but still just shows it can be done if you look around.

Basically her iPhone becomes a wireless hotspot and her laptop finds it as a wireless access point. Really is simple.

Dunno what O2 are playing at with that crap to be honest.
 
this really annoys me. I can just about stomach the over the top price of the iphone and really want one after owning many other smartphones.

But an extra £15 a month for the odd bit off usage is a joke.

So I will have to jailbreak it I guess just for this feature which I assume means going down the Pay as You go Route or could I jailbreak on contract?

I want to have "free" internet, so would the best option be Pay as you go phone, jailbreak and then some random sim (o2 simplicity perhaps) with free internet bolt on and then use a 3rd party app?
 
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PAYG iphone will be v expensive, not worth it against the competition IMHO, but your funeral.. :p What made you get rid of the HD Touch HD? I've had it a few days and am starting to prefer internets with it over my iPod Touch.. but that's not really fair, my house WiFi/internet is so pants at the moment it's unbelievably quicker to use the HD as a modem.. was downloading something earlier today, only 7mb, under 2kb/s on wifi. Would've taken over an hour, I thought screw this and plugged in my phone, took less than a minute.

Edit: How have I been reduced to 56K modem levels?? *shock* :o:o
 
I also Jailbreak and use a third party app to tether for occasional use, I'd be happy to pay an extra £5 or something per month (that's what I paid T-Mobile) but while O2 want to gouge three times that I can't really see me paying it.

I know my iPhone contract is supposed to contain "unlimited data" however it's obvious that's oversold and not really unlimited as all the good official apps are limited to wifi only, £15/mo is ridiculous though.
 
[TW]Fox;14246938 said:
I've done this with every phone I've owned since a Nokia 6130 in 2000.

Why wont the iPhone do it :confused:
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It does already. But until Apple/Networks could find a way of charging for the privilege they did not release an app to do it.

I've been doing it already free of course.
 
The price is a joke when you look at their mobile USB stick thing, which costs 1p more per month and means you don't have to use your iphone battery up
 
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