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We’re not certain how that one got past Apple’s App Store censors, but the intelligent kids at Nullriver have released what appears to be the first tethering solution for the iPhone. The $10 NetShare app is just a SOCKS proxy that hyperlinks an ad-hoc WiFi network to the iPhone’s 3G or EDGE connection — and whether we could get it to work, we’d probably think it was a fine, whether hacky, solution to a major limitation of Steve’s baby. As it stands, though, the directions are pretty sparse, and while we can get the app to

recognize a connection, we’re not able to actually load anything. We’re not certain how faraway that one’s going to last — anyone else willing to give it a shot before it gets yanked?

[Thanks, Zoli; Warning, link opens iTunes]

Update: Aaaaand it’s offline. Shocking.

Update 2: We’ve added our own video hands-on after the break.

Continue reading Tether your iPhone, wirelessly. perhaps. (updated with video)

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Original post by Nilay Patel