Celebrated Android hacker Steve Kondik, better known by his online name cyanogen has posted an update to Twitter stating plans to offer a modified Nexus One ROM which will include wired and wireless tethering, multitouch web browsing and other software for tinkering with the embedded Linux distribution.
Cyanogen to Offer Nexus One ROM with Multitouch Browsing and Full Tethering
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Nice. As per the tethering article above, I’m glad Google told the carriers to “stuff it”. LOL. Although at least up to this point T-Mobile has been pretty good about not requiring authentication on their RAS gateways (unlike Verizon, which does) so that tethering shouldn’t be a problem.
RAS isn’t a problem as Android allows for transparent proxies. That’s how PDANet is able to operate as a standard application, and not require rooting/jailbreaking.
Of course, Windows Mobile does the same thing with native code, which is why companies like Google could combine an App Store structure with the open/unsigned support of Dalvik.