Feb 05

Hints Of AT&T Support In Cr-48 Surface

Posted in: att, Google, laptop, TMobile, Today's Chili, verizon

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Using your Google Cr-48 netbook on Verizon is all well and good, but AT&T devotees looking for the slightly-faster HSPA flavor of 3G over EV-DO have been left out in the cold. If a recent update to Chrome OS is any indication, this won’t be the case forever. The download added GSM support to the Gobi chipset in the Cr-48 at an OS level, but Google has yet to enable it for users. 

Hacker Hexxeh (known for his custom builds of the ChromiumOS project, the open-source version of Chrome OS) has managed to get an AT&T SIM card running on the Cr-48 using a little bit of hacking. This type of thing is likely frowned upon by AT&T, but it definitely shows that Google is only a few software changes away from letting you surf with ease on the network. T-Mobile and Vodaphone are both apparently valid options in the software as well, though neither has been confirmed to work so far.

Because of the unofficial, totally hacked-on nature of GSM support right now, there’s no data counter. And no guarantee that it won’t “break totally unexpectedly,” according to Hexxeh himself. Probably better off waiting until the carriers give their okay.

[via Hexxeh, Engadget]

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