{"id":2095,"date":"2010-07-03T16:34:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T20:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2014-03-22T05:55:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T09:55:27","slug":"froyo-yum-yum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"FroYo, yum yum!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The over-the-air update for Android 2.2, aka FroYo, landed on my Nexus One this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The WiFi hotspot feature works perfectly when tested with my ThinkPad X61 running Linux.<\/p>\n<p>I am liberated.  No more per-diem WiFi charges in hotels.  No more cursing as I discover that the airport hotspots are all pay-for-play.  Internet on my laptop in the shotgun seat of the car!<\/p>\n<p>This feature will be a must for road warriors everywhere.  And the iPhone 4 doesn&#8217;t have it.  The screams of denial from the Apple fanboys as that absence costs Apple another hunk of market share that it will never get back should be most entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Have verified that USB tethering just works, too.  Plug it in and go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The over-the-air update for Android 2.2, aka FroYo, landed on my Nexus One this morning. The WiFi hotspot feature works perfectly when tested with my ThinkPad X61 running Linux. I am liberated. No more per-diem WiFi charges in hotels. No more cursing as I discover that the airport hotspots are all pay-for-play. Internet on my&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=2095\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FroYo, yum yum!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-smartphone","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}