The ability to tether a 3G phone to a laptop is always desirable. Phones with 3G make dandy modems for laptops, and owners like to do that as they are already paying for that phone data connection. Carrier rules aside (at your own risk), utilities have been around as long as there have been 3G phones that let you tether them to the laptop. A utility from a company that has been doing this for years is now in beta (free) for Android phones, meaning the T-Mobile G1.
PDANet is a utility from the folks at June Fabrics that makes the act of tethering simple and direct. The utility has long been available for Windows Mobile phones (and others), and this new version brings the ability to tether to the G1. This beta is free but will likely be a paid app when it goes live, so if you want to tether your G1, go get it. Just don’t tell T-Mobile. Note that there are versions of PDANet available for BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile and PalmOS too.
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