Motorola Milestone (Droid) review

Proxy!!???!!

Why is it that you've never mentioned the lack of Proxy support on Android? Many Universities and Enterprise business users have a completely useless wifi radio when at work/campus and you've not mentioned this rather glaring hole in function on any of your Android phone reviews. I bet there isn't a single other smartphone operating system that ommits this feature. I love my Hero but it's been neutered.

By hjl4354 on 14 Jan 2010

I;m going to be covering this in more detail in the RWC column soon, but in the meantime if you google it you should be able to find a downloadable Android proxy app.

By PaulOckenden on 14 Jan 2010

There is no app or satisfactory fix that i can find after 3 months of intermittent web trawling. Some people have tried using anycut but that solution has no support for secured proxy access.

Here's the issue logged with the Google Code site that seems to be unheeded: http://code.google.com/p/android/issue
s/detail?id=1273

Even if someone does manage to write an app, you have to admit that it's should be a built in function.

Anyhoo, i'll stop moaning, I look forward to reading your column.

By hjl4354 on 14 Jan 2010