Ask Slashdot: Which Android Phone (and Carrier) For WiFi Proxy Support? 125
frisket writes "My current phone contract is about to run out, and I'm due a phone upgrade. My HTC Hero has been fine except for the notorious lack of Android proxy support for wireless connections, so I want a new Android phone which provides this. None of the phone companies hereabouts (Ireland) seems to know anything about this, and the forums offer conflicting advice. Is it true that wifi proxy support is disabled to force users to use their phone company's IP connection? What choices do I have (if any)?"
Official ticket (Score:5, Informative)
See this ticket - there are many user reports on which phones have it working and which don't in the comments:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1273 [google.com]
Samsung Galaxy S2 in particular supports it with updates (2.3.4+), and is otherwise the single most awesome Android phone on the market today (at least until Nexus Prime is officially announced tomorrow).
Re:Stop calling it "proxy support" then (Score:3, Informative)
My Epic 4g can.
Settings->Wireless and Network->Wifi Settings-"Menu" Button->Advanced->Proxy
Settings->Wireless and Network->Wifi Settings-"Menu" Button->Advanced->Port
Didn't see any options for username/password though.
Re:What is Wifi Proxy Support? (Score:4, Informative)
All comments below about proxy support being something to do with tethering are complete rubbish.
Re:Official ticket (Score:4, Informative)
Google's decision to omit proxy support was a sweetener to the US telcos so they could make more moneyselling their sucky expensive G3 networking by making it impossible to use Androids with company or academic wireless networks. They didn't know that outside the US, G3/Edge/H/etc connections are very cheap, and that they would lose a huge number of student and business potential users because of the omission of proxy support.