I guess one of the big features that Windows Phone users have been hanging out for is a friendlier solution for internet sharing. Since the initial release, you could make it work by dialling a string of numbers into the phone and manually assigning the APN but it was hardly an elegant and easily invoked solution.
Hopefully by now everyone has managed to update to Mango (or will be shortly) but you may be wondering where on earth the option to enable internet sharing is located? Well, it should be in the Settings hub but it will most likely be hidden for the time being. At this point, I’d be hearing cries of “why, what now?” or something similar.
Basically, internet sharing relies upon two things in order to be activated, specifically:
- Your carrier allowing you to use tethering on your account/plan,
- Your handset manufacturer releasing updated drivers to make internet sharing work.
Apparently, there is a registry key that toggles the visibility of the option which may be influenced by something the carrier does on their end. Otherwise, if they have given Microsoft open slather to let people use it then this will only rely upon your handset manufacturer releasing updated drivers (which hopefully won’t be too far away, hey Samsung?).
In the meantime I will hang on to my Samsung Galaxy S which has this function and my trusty 3G Inzone modem (which even lets me plug in a telephone to make phone calls and has four Ethernet ports).
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