Users of a variety of smart phones have been able to “tether” them to their laptops in order to allow the laptop to make use of the phone’s internet connection, but this feature has been conspicuously absent from the iPhone.
Nullriver tried to fill this gap with NetShare, but Apple bounced it from the App Store for good only a few days after it was first posted. More recently, PDAnet is available for jailbroken iPhones.
It’s progress then that an AT&T exec said, in an interview with Michael Arrington, that they’ll be supporting 3G tethering on the iPhone in 2009. If the tethering plans for other phones are any guide, we can expect an extra charge on the order of $20-30 for the privilege. We’ll see if there is a way to sneak a little tethering on the base iPhone data plan the way people have with other phones.
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