Tether an Android Phone Using Proxoid

Posted by dmpop on Jul 22, 2009 5:31 AM EDT
Productivity Sauce; By Dmitri Popov
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The Android Market features a few tethering applications, so it should be easy to use your Android phone as a wireless modem.

The Android Market features a few tethering applications, so it should be easy to use your Android phone as a wireless modem. Well, that's how the theory goes, anyway. In practice, however, these applications require root access to your phone's system, so you have to "root" your phone before you can tether it. Rooting an Android phone is not for the faint of heart, though, and there is the ever-present risk of bricking your device. Meet Proxoid, a proxy server application that lets you use your phone as a modem without hacking its system.

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