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Dell Venue Pro will never get WIFI tethering

October 12, 2011 | By Surur

WIFI tethering on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango depends on the presence of the facility in its WIFI chipset, in particular the BRCM 4329 chipset.

OndraSter has been doing some work looking for the presence or absence of this chipset leaked ROMs.

He found, despite the presence or absence of the feature in the older Windows Phone 7 handsets, they were all sporting the right chipset and were therefore capable of supporting WIFI tethering.

The only exception is the Dell Venue Pro, which sports the BRCM 4325 chipset, which lacks AP mode and will therefore never have the feature.

Luckily hacked USB tethering still works on the Dell Venue Pro, but it does come as another blow to DVP owners who’s OEM has already decided to abandon the platform.

Read more in this XDA-Developers thread.

Via WPSauce.com

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About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

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  • http://twitter.com/efjay01 Ef Jay

    I think you’ll find that dell has never said they are abandoning the platform, may want to rephrase that.

    • Anonymous

      “Dell’s focus is to provide customers with a differentiated mobile experience, and continue to support multiple operating systems including Windows Phone. We remain a committed partner to Microsoft and we look forward to collaborating with them on future products across all platforms.”

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=816451109 Mitchell Jared Skurnik

        “Future products” meaning not this product…

  • http://twitter.com/counterblow the person

    tethering has just turned into an imprisoned cash cow for carriers anyways, really I’d be just as happy with one that doesnt support tethering.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=816451109 Mitchell Jared Skurnik

    The article states that there is a way to get tethering to work on the DVP.  Here is how you can on XDA – > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1281744

  • Anonymous

    I have the dell venue pro service manual and it states the wifi chip as follows:

    integrated Broadcom solution of BCM4329 WiFi/Bluetooth/FM SoC

    so i dont know where the guy on xda got his info from.

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