3G mobile hotspot
I love that idea? When can I get that from O2 in the UK?
It's official: Apple's iPhone 4 will be available on US carrier Verizon's network on 10 February. Tweaked for CDMA - all the others use GSM - the handset will be priced at $200 for the 16GB model and $300 for the 32GB version. Verizon subscribers can order ahead of the rush, on 3 February. Unique to Verizon's iPhone: 3G …
Aside from the obvious, bin your current one and get any other brand of smart phone, the answer is...You've always been able to (at least since the 3G came out), just go to your Iphone supplier and ask to have tethering adding to your account. You have to pay for it but it is available...or jail break it.
Android rocks. I especially love how stable and reliable it is when using a wifi signal. Or how it so masterfully handles proxy servers on corporate wifi networks. Or that all of the handsets can run all of the same applications equally well, in tablet form or not. Or the fact I can use it all day on a single charge without worrying.
Oh wait...
Wake me up when Android matures. right now it is a POS behind iOS and Symbian (my OS of choice).
Yes you can use your iPhone in tethered mode - O2 will charge extra for it. No idea if this means it can be used as a wifi hotspot over being plugged in over USB though.
Isn't it past your bedtime laddie? This is a forum for adults where technology and related issues are discussed in balanced, reasoned and rational debate. Oh, wait...
Honestly, every time El reg posts an article that relates to either Android or Apple, these discussions turn into my old school playground, where "ZX Spectrum vs C64" was the battleground. It was boring then too.
Or get a MiFi on PAYG from 3 for about £50 - then unlock and put an O2 SIM in it (though I seem to recall reading that all 3's stuff comes unlocked).
Just checked, and you can now buy them on Amazon, and I'm sure elsewhere for less than the £90 asked here...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unlocked-Wireless-Modem-Huawei-E585/dp/B003VHT37U
I've been amazed by how fast the connection speed is on it, and it works beautifully with my iPad, and with the PC when I moved house and had no broadband. It was good enough for me to watch the cricket on SkyPlayer at decent quality.
I love the ads that Verizon has run on this feature on Androids in the past - showing some hip person sitting on a bench surfing the web on her phone and a bunch of other (presumably strangers) nearby also using her connection on their various laptops, etc.
I'd hate to see the data usage on her next bill.
Well AIUI, SIM is a GSM requirement, but not a CDMA one. Here in the States, every GSM phone I've seen has a SIM slot. None of the CDMA ones I've seen do.
As for the antenna redesign, I'd say it's most likely due to frequencies used, as the gaps that caused the grip of death are still in the same place.
Yup. CDMA doesn't require a SIM, which is why CDMA carriers tend to use this to their advantage, locking down their handsets pretty hard.
At least our own CDMA carrier in Mexico has deployed a GSM network and put out the iPhone on that one, so there won't be any portability issues over here. :D
There is a group of people that have issues with everyone different from themselves. They see the world in stark black and white tones. Since they're consumers, some subset of them end up with Android phones and come on places like here to shout at everybody else. Similarly, some subset of them has iPhones and probably another is still very happy with a Nokia 3210.
So it's not Android owners you want to be unhappy with, it's a completely orthogonal set of idiots.
None voice/SMS communications applications, as in for remote control or data acquisition, occasionally do use physical plug-in memory chips so that in the event of a module failure, the 'SIM' data can be easily transferred to the replacement unit in the field.
Also, the additional segment in the peripheral antenna is a secondary receive antenna required by the Verizon specifications for their network. AnandTech is even claiming that the "death-grip" still attenuates the signal, so obviously Apple does not consider their antenna design an issue.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4125/understanding-the-verizon-iphone-4-announcement
In short, no conspiracy as suggested by the article.
-dZ.
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The WiFi tethering feature is not an "app", but a system update. GSM phones should get it with 4.3
Presumably, it will be enabled by carrier settings. Hoping that Three will leave it enabled.
The MyWi app for jail broken phones has offered this feature for a long time.
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