June Fabrics, the makers of PDANet, today announced that they have acquired FoxFi, the popular Android tethering solution. And, the newly-branded PDANet+ 4.0 is now available.
PDANet+ now incorporates USB and Bluetooth DUN tethering, as well as Wi-Fi tethering on Android 4.0 and earlier versions. It does not work around the blockade that Google added to Android 4.1/4.2, Jelly Bean, which disables the circumvention method that FoxFi used to enable tethering without phoning home to the carrier, to check for a tethering plan.
Before FoxFi was acquired, it pushed out an update that stripped the app of freeware status, and PDANet+ continues that downward slide. PDANet+ is a $6.97 app, not free. But, like FoxFi, it will work for 30 minutes at a time in a trial mode, which requires manual reactivation of tethering every half hour.
It is likely that this sale/transfer of FoxFi to PDANet marks the original team’s giving up of devising a solution to allow unrooted, stock Android Jelly Bean devices to tether over Wi-Fi. While Google benefitted from the evangelism effect of allowing geeks to tether for free (at the ire of carriers, which ultimately led to FCC consent agreements at times)
Does this mean that Foxfi is working on a fix for the 4.1
I am a truck driver, i need to have the internet to find loads on the road and be able to print load conformations. with the hot spot i was geting from foxfi this was possable. my android requested an up date and now l no!!! longer can use it for this for this purpace. mel