All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3
Summary: One of the (few) surprises during yesterday's big announcement was that Verizon iPhones will be getting personal hotspots. They won't be alone.
One of the (few) surprises during yesterday's big announcement was that Verizon iPhones will be getting personal hotspots. They won't be alone.
According to BGR, it has been "confirmed" that the personal hotspot feature will be rolled out to all iPhones regardless of carrier with iOS 4.3. (Naturally, the carrier is going to come into play somehow, so AT&T users might not be able to take advantage of this feature so easily.)
Expected to drop in March, the OS version will be 8F5148b and the baseband will be 04.08.00. Users will be able to connect up to five devices to the hotspot via Wi-Fi and possibly Bluetooth. Of course, if you don't have an unlimited (or at least 2GB) data plan, this will surely eat up your data usage allotment quickly.
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RE: All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3
RE: All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3
I hope so it is free but I also doubt it. If it is not I will probably not get it as I have only found a few instances on where it would have been convenient. Like I mentioned above I am almost always near WiFi and have access to a computer when I can actually stop and use a computer.
RE: All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3
Verizon is offering 5 Gig Free Hotspot on Palm Pre/Pixi phones, Free Hotspot on tablets that comes out of your tablet data plan, and word is, it will also be free on the iPhone (unconfirmed) but they STILL charge $20/2Gig on Android and WM smartphones. Now T-Mobile is trying to get into the tethering "nickel-and-diming" game too, along with AT&T and Sprint. I really wish they would quit this and just leave it for what it is: a functionality of the phone or device and just let people use it as part of basic data service much as they do in Asia and Europe, mandated by government tariff.
RE: All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3
Fido (a Rogers subsidiary) never charged me for any tethering. It's part of my data plan.
Now with this WiFi hotspot thingy, I'll be able to use my WiFi iPad outside a WiFi zone. Cool!
For little positives like this we put up with 3 year contracts, so my iPhone 3GS will stay with me 'till at least the summer of 2012.
RE: All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3
People are so goddamn stupid.
RE: All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3
http://bit.ly/hs5i9G
RE: All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3
RE: All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3
Just like when Android finally got native support to connect to corporate email services like exchange years after everyone else? Who cares.
RE: All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3
http://bit.ly/hs5i9G
This ain't anything new on the iPhone
RE: All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3
Don't be ridiculous. No one is claiming the feature is newsworthy in and of itself. But when a new feature hits a handset that has many millions of users it's worth reporting in a gadet rag. Superiority complexes on any side of what is ultimately a consumer choice crack me up to no end.
RE: All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3
AT&T Is Already Planning To Include This
Comcast is looking at a similar model to charge for every computer you hook to your router at home.