T-mobile 4G on my Cr-48

After reading some reviews of the Cr-48 and its lack of USB support I felt a little discouraged at the possibilities of some high speed wireless tethering. I mean I can always set the trusty old Nexus One to hotspot mode, but that's slower and drains the battery so it would most likely be plugged in anyway.

With nothing to lose, I went ahead and connected my Nexus One, running CyanogenMod 6.1, and mounted it as a USB drive first. I had no luck at browsing or being able to select and upload any of its contents. After that miserable fail, I skeptically went into my Nexus One's wireless settings and turned on USB tethering. To my surprise I was connected to T-Mobile's HSPA+ network as soon as I enabled it on my superphone! Browsing was reliable and quick, plus I know I can burn through the 100 free Verizon MBs in no time if I'm not around Wi-fi.

The Cr-48 also carries a Gobi 3G chip which should mean that it would work on either CDMA or GSM 3G in the future. Being HSPA+ is just a 3G firmware upgrade, we should be seeing "4G speeds" natively. Why Google got USB tethering before simple storage devices working? Got me. Knowing I'm able to fall back on my unlimited T-mobile "4G" data plan is a big bonus though.