[colug-432] Tethering a Droid

[Jonathan Hogue]

You can make incoming and outgoing voice work over wifi with something
like sipdroid. flowroute offers voip for a penny a minute. Call
quality on that app is not great. (not the original question, but
something I played with).

But I haven't tried using the bluetooth for internet... might have
better luck with wifi. Over wifi, app store will work, even on phone
without cell service.

I'm not sure how location information would be communicated over wifi,
but I have a deactivated droid you can borrow if you want to
experiment.

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Judd Montgomery <judd at jpilot.org> wrote:
> I sold a Motorola Droid I had on Friday.  I used the Wi-Fi to surf, read
> email, download apps, use maps, etc.  Everything on it worked except I
> couldn't make calls without service and Google Voice won't make Wi-Fi
> calls when there is no service.  This is a software imposed limitation.
>
> If the phone is at the initial boot screen where it asks if you want to
> make an emergency call you'd have to have a service provider get you
> past that screen or root the phone.
>
> Judd
>
> On 07/12/2010 07:51 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote:
>> Hello Colug'ers...
>>
>> Has anyone tried to take a Droid-equipped phone (such as the original
>> Motorola Android) and, instead of using the internal cellular radio,
>> just tether the phone to another cellular via bluetooth?  Obviously you
>> couldn't make calls this way but I wonder if the other stuff, such as
>> the app store (or even just Google Maps), would work.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -JK
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