Verizon: Droid Tethering Will Cost $30 Extra > Bah,,,

Bah,,,

if all it will be is an apk file they are doomed. its far too easy to pull the apks off android. unless they build it into the os then all it will take is someone to reverse engineer it.

not to mention all the alternatives out there for doing these things with android.

only an idiot/lazy person would pay an extra $30 to tether it when they could just as easily follow a howto and do it for free

reply to evergreek

reply to FBGuy
it's not so much about an ability to tether, but rather complying with their TOS/AUP

knowing verizon, they can be pretty big assholes.
if they'll see that your droid suddenly has a user-agent of FireFox, or there's a download of fla movies from youtube while there is no flash on android, it's obvious the phone have been tethered and then verizon can start charging you by KB or forcefully terminate your service for breaking TOS/AUP.
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reply to evergreek
wow i tether too from my tmobile phone to my laptop but i do it for free cuz i can root my phone, good luck with that on verizon. they are going to lock this phone down like no body's business. and they just announced that they are double there Early term fees, now its like $330, that crazy.

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reply to MxxCon
who says that the phone doesn't support flash. can you not mod your phone? or do they still own the phone?

reply to MxxCon
I thought the Droid supported flash?

The last I checked the Droid does support Flash as well as YouTube.
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reply to NeoandGeo
It will play YouTube videos on release but flash won't come out until early next year on the Droid but it IS coming.

It may support "Flash Lite" which is somewhere in-between Flash 6 and 7 in terms of functionality and compatibility. Almost completely useless these days since most sites require Flash 9+ Adobe has announced support for Flash 10 on mobile sometime late this year on select devices with more mainstream support later in 2011. I'm not convinced they're going to be able to pull it off. They announced Mobile Flash 7 years ago, delivered a couple of buggy slow releases, and gave up. Maybe things will be different this time?

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reply to evergreek
I pay $15/month for my AT&T data plan. I can tether my phone to my laptop and the speed test shows 3000/200
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