Wifi hotspot.

When will someone get this going?

If it's rocking the Palm, this should be a no brainer for us.

I know it's possible with rooted phones but I'm not that smart.

I think they are doing that on the Palm handseats, since they are not selling very well.

The Droids have sold well, and I bet Droids probably already have the highest data usage on the network, or at least mine does lol.

Rooting is super easy, Droid-life.com has great videos on it, its really just running a program.

You can get a connection over usb or bluetooth with PDAnet, which is available in the market.

I think Verizon needs to do a commercial with the droid putting out a wifi signal of it's 3g. Say a droid users and his buddy are out and about. The friend has a iphone and can't get coverage. Being the nice friend, the droid user pulls out his droid and says " I have an app for that" . Lets his friend use his 3G connection where AT&T doesn't get coverage.

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Originally Posted by thebowers

I think Verizon needs to do a commercial with the droid putting out a wifi signal of it's 3g. Say a droid users and his buddy are out and about. The friend has a iphone and can't get coverage. Being the nice friend, the droid user pulls out his droid and says " I have an app for that" . Lets his friend use his 3G connection where AT&T doesn't get coverage.

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Great idea.

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Originally Posted by thebowers

I think Verizon needs to do a commercial with the droid putting out a wifi signal of it's 3g. Say a droid users and his buddy are out and about. The friend has a iphone and can't get coverage. Being the nice friend, the droid user pulls out his droid and says " I have an app for that" . Lets his friend use his 3G connection where AT&T doesn't get coverage.

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Great idea.

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That's an EXCELLENT idea!

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Originally Posted by Big D

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Originally Posted by thebowers

I think Verizon needs to do a commercial with the droid putting out a wifi signal of it's 3g. Say a droid users and his buddy are out and about. The friend has a iphone and can't get coverage. Being the nice friend, the droid user pulls out his droid and says " I have an app for that" . Lets his friend use his 3G connection where AT&T doesn't get coverage.

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Great idea.

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But then they'd have to let everyone do it. And they were pretty dramatic in taking all the Wireless Tether Apps down. It could happen though :) I hope it does. Would be a great commercial!

That definitely is a great idea but I doubt it will happen :-/

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When will someone get this going?

If it's rocking the Palm, this should be a no brainer for us.

I know it's possible with rooted phones but I'm not that smart.

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There are tether apps for the droid already available in the market. They come in both wireless and USB forms, you need root access for wifi tethering I believe but not for USB.

So the technology is there but there hasn't been an app designed to do it without rooting?

That seems like something that devs would be highly motivated to get going on. I personally, would love that ability (primarily for the kids who both have the itouch).

you don't need to be rooted for wifi tethering. There's a free wifi tether app for non-rooted users called "Barnacle. "It works great!