So all you Windows Mobile fans that just went to Windows Phone, are you missing that tethering you used to do? Well we have good news here at PPCG – if you own a samsung Device…It appears that if you type in some codes on the dialer you can use your phone as a modem.

To use your device please follow these simple steps listed below:

1. On your Samsung Device dial: ##634# then press call. You’ll go into the Diagnosis Menu. Don’t worry you won’t need to remember this number simply because now it is on your program list with a picture of a phone – this is basically the diagnostics menu for the dialer.

2) Now dial (on the diagnostic creen) *#7284# and a dialogue will pop up letting you change the settings from Zune to modem or “Modem, USB dialognostics”. You want to go with “Modem, Tethered Call”. It will restart you phone after a few seconds. Once it restarts, connect to your PC over USB and drivers will be installed on your computer. Now go to your connections on your PC and you’ll see that a Samsung modem was added.

3) Now on your computer you need to change the setting for the Samsung modem. If you set it to prompt for user name you’ll be able to put in the login info. This is all it is:

number: *99***1#
user name: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
password: CINGULAR1

Source: windowsphonemix.com Via Mobilitydigest

Our friends at BGR have spread the word that no tethering will be available on WP7 devices (link here). Thanks to Dr.8820 here at PPCGeeks for sharing this news with us.

How does anyone know this? Director of Windows Phone 7 Brandon Watson stated in an earlier interview that WP7 would have tethering abilities and that it would be up to the carrier to allow it. Following that interview, Watson was corrected by a spokesperson from Microsoft stating that “Windows phone 7 does not support tethering.”

We also just received word that sense, as we know it, will not be the same on WP7 devices. Although this news is just a rumor, these are going to be huge decision makers for most users currently on WM devices and Droid devices when deciding to try out WP7. To hear what our users think, check out the WP7 section on PPCG.