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iPhone OS 4.3 to Bring Mobile Hotspot Outside of Verizon in March
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iPhone OS 4.3 to Bring Mobile Hotspot Outside of Verizon in March
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Mike
One of the few distinctive differences of Verizon’s iPhone 4 which was announced yesterday is that unlike AT&T, it includes a Personal Hotspot to turn your phone into a Wi-Fi hub and share your wireless internet with up to 5 devices. AT&T iPhone 4 owners may be making puppy-dog eyes over not getting the feature, but don’t worry – rumour has it that a global iOS update due to land in March will bring the Personal Hotspot feature beyond just the Verizon iPhone.
An iPhone hotspot will be a nice additional feature, but even once Apple’s done cooking up the software, what carriers do with it may be a huge bottleneck. AT&T, for example, only provided iPhone tethering this summer after promising it over a year earlier. Part of the delay may rely on getting the pricing infrastructure in place, or in AT&T’s case, building out their network so they can handle the added load a mobile hotspot feature would add, but now that Verizon is offering a viable alternative, you’d think their network congestion would lessen. That being said, the longer Verizon is the only one with personal hotspot on the iPhone 4, the more AT&T is bound to bleed customers (not that they needed any more reasons).
As Will continually points out, there have been third-party Wi-Fi hotspot solutions available for awhile, if it’s a feature you’re really gung-ho about using and don’t feel like waiting for something official.
I'd be happy to get rid of ATT's ****** and slow service, which was really amplified at CES.
I wasn't aware you had to pay for the "hotspot".I think part of the problem with "Mobile Hotspot," though, is that you need to pay for it. Tethering is free if you can do it......
I stayed at Mandaly's last year during the summer and ATT service was pretty bad there as well.Venetian is the dead planet for AT&T.
About a million ways to do that, its easy and free :whoopie:Anyone know a hack for this (turning it into a hotspot to avoid the $30 monthly fee? I would want to cancel my Sierra Overdrive ($150 cancellation fee at this point) and just use the EVO 4 for the hotspot duties. Just PM me re: this as it will take away from this thread.
I'd be happy to get rid of ATT's ****** and slow service, which was really amplified at CES.
I just read this post and I have absolutely no idea what all this means. I am hopelessely out of touch with this technology.:geezer:I was an ATT/Cingular customer for the last 8 years and I switched over to Sprint and got the EVO a few months back and I can't imagine life without it. You can tether for free (with USB) on the EVO (and free wifi hot spot if you root it which I haven't) and that was one of the main reasons why I went for the EVO over the iPhone, well that and I really wanted 4G speed. I have an iPod Touch and an iPad, but for a mobile device I prefer Android and its flexibility. You can spend an hour just playing around with the interface if you want to. It really is great for people who enjoying playing around under the hood. I really am almost ashamed to admit how addicted I am to this thing. The one thing that is missing is Sonos needs to finish its official Android app, but right now Andronos works, but its not ever close to the official iPod app.
Is that $30 on top of the $30 data service they are already charging people?Well, it wouldn't be the first time somebody stared at me like they didn't understand a thing I just said. Here it is in layman terms:
I prefer Google's phone operating system (Android) over Apple's because you can use it wherever you go to provide high speed internet to your devices (pc, laptop, ipad, etc) for free. With Apple they charge $30 a month for that service and have slower speeds. I also think Google's phones allows more customization and personalization. Apple's phone is a slicker product out of the box, requires no tinkering and is really nothing short of brilliant, but if you like playing around with gadgets, Android is a better experience.
Hey, I don't even use my phone for texting.I just read this post and I have absolutely no idea what all this means. I am hopeless out of touch with this technology.:geezer:
Whoa!!! Slow down here. Now how's this work?Hey, I don't even use my phone for texting.
I push 10 numbers, someone answers. It rings, I answer. :woo:
I have voice mail too... :saywhat:Hey, I don't even use my phone for texting.
I push 10 numbers, someone answers. It rings, I answer. :woo: