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Palm Warns About Pre Tethering Hack - Because Sprint Won't Like It [Palm Pre]
Gizmodo —
... They have however, added a note stating that Sprint does not have a Pre plan which allows tethering under the Terms Of Service. It seems like everyone involved is sticking a finger up at Sprint, though not necessarily to their face. [Pre Dev Wiki via ...
Palm curtail Pre tethering hack to pacify Sprint
SlashGear —
... on the smartphone: it also promises to unlock currently forbidden functionality such as tethering. The Pre Dev Wiki had been one such team working on that, but after a “polite” warning from Palm themselves have ceased publicly discussing it: it seems Palm is concerned, not that webOS might be modified, but that Sprint may demand the manufacturer step in and prevent users overstepping their contracts. ...
Palm Pre Tethering: No Discussions, Please!
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
Looks like the folks over at the Pre Dev Wiki have been warned by the execs and legal team over at Sprint (NYSE: S). Why? Sprint has taken up issue with the many tethering discussions found on their site and IRC channel. Me thinks that much discussion will go on anyway… At this point Sprint does not have a plan available for the Pre that allows tethering…However, once Palm (NSDQ: PALM)’s exclusivity deal on the Pre is over, Palm may be forced to change this due to competition and options given from other carriers. ...
Palm: Prithee, good sirs, speak not of Palm Pre tethering
CrunchGear —
... In an example of rolling over in the name of “good relationships,” the Pre Dev Wiki has shut down their tethering page because “Sprint could get angry.” This is in stark contrast with iPhone devs who couldn’t give two squirts about “good relationships” and instead produce interesting technical content including unlocked phones. ...
Palm to Hackers- Don’t Tether your Pre, Sprint Will Get Mad
jkOnTheRun —
... Palm has politely suggested to a group of WebOS hackers who have put together a way to tether the phone to a laptop to share the 3G connection that they should not do that as it might make Sprint mad. Phone carriers don’t support free tethering as a rule and in the case of the Pre, Sprint doesn’t even offer a tethering plan for pay. Palm made it clear to the team at the Pre Dev Wiki that if Sprint pressures them about the tethering, they may have to shut the wiki down. ...
Palm webOS system upgrades mandatory; hacking scene forbidden from tethering
Engadget —
... We've seen a tremendous explosion in the webOS hacking scene ever since the Pre's firmware image leaked out -- between the easily-accessible restore more, Linux foundations and the directly-accessible HTML / CSS / Javascript application code, we've ...
