…people are saying that Android 2.2 will allow you to tether your phone and use it as a hotspot, thus leapfrogging the iPhone.
Setting aside how frequently these slobber-jobs use the word “will”, here’s the deal: the iPhone OS, version 3, has supported tethering from the day it shipped. In fact, it was a working feature with 29 of the 30 carriers from day one, and people are tethering away with iPhones like there’s no tomorrow.
Except in the United States, where AT&T still hasn’t worked up the bandwidth to allow it.
Phones don’t exist in a vacuum. In the United States, your phone exists at the sufferance of your carrier. And if you think that AT&T’s going to blithely allow Android phones they sell to do this sort of wireless hotspot tethering, you are probably legally insane and should be given very hard drugs.