[OT?] Android phones

[Tyler Aviss]

I have a motorola milestone which is a droid phone. So far I'm quite fond of
it, though I find that the iphone app store seemed a bit more "polished",
and I haven't yet found a good VOIP app

On 26 Mar 2010 8:39 PM, "Herb Richter" <hgr-FjoMob2a1F7QT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:


I am considering buying a smart phone and have been trying to make sense of
the offerings and their specs.

I do like the Nexus One, now that Google is shipping it into Canada (with
some warrantee).

The new HTC EVO 4G <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_EVO> does have a
feature I would like - the ability to act as a mobile hotspot (hosting up to
8 wi-fi devices)
I wouldn't need to host 8 but I would want to tether(?) my netbook
wirelessly (wi-fi not bluetooth).

My question is: Would wi-fi tethering/hosting be hardware dependent or might
one be able to install suitable software to have the Nexus phone act as a
gateway/router etc?

Herb Richter

BTW - is there a reason phone handsets with wi-fi never (it seems) have
wireless-n (just b/g) ?
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