Hands-on with the Verizon iPhone’s personal hotspot feature

By on Jan 11, 2011 at 12:46 PM
mobile January 11, 2011

We just spent some more time with the Verizon iPhone’s one added feature — a feature that is sure to make GSM iPhone owners jealous — the personal hotspot. The mobile hotspot implementation on the CDMA iPhone is, like all things Apple, pretty simple and takes little effort to get up and running. There’s a blue notification bar that appears on the top of the device’s screen that shows you how many clients are connected and a simple interface to toggle the hotspot on and off and set the password. Mobile hotspot functionality will be available on the Verizon iPhone at launch for an extra monthly fee — likely $20 to line up with other similar services.

Has the addition of the mobile hotspot pushed any of you current iPhone owners over the edge? Ready to switch?

We’ve taken a few more candids for you to take a look at.

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  • Noah

    Actually, the Mobile Hotspot is included in the standard $30/mn data charge.

  • joe coooolllll

    again as im sure its been mentioned already

    1.if you wanted this phone, you would have gone to att by now. this would have been big news after 3g model was released
    2.no lte
    3.no lte
    4.htc/moto phones have caught up and as some tink may have passed this phone-i mean can this thing hang w/ the atrix?
    5.this mainly hurts bb-ppl w/ android phones know their devices are becoming more capable than the iphone
    6.ppl who just got bb not too long ago because they think it makes them cool (40-60 year olds) now will get this w/ the same mindset

  • Vlad Pop

    It is interesting no one is considering the resale price of the iPhone. I can always sell it because AT&T iPhone can be sold to the rest of the world or T-Mobile users on ebay because it uses GSM, Verizon not that much. So when the new iPhone 5 (or whatever) comes out, you can sell the old one and buy the new one for a little extra. So the bottom line here is that on AT&T you can have the new iPhone for less money than on Verizon every year.

  • http://twitter.com/ProZack27 Zachary Sloane

    I use MiWi4 to tether with my iPad all the time. No need for a 3G iPad next time around.

  • peterjames

    Still waiting for Android 2.2 release for Galaxy S. When?

  • Rich

    Why is it that people are willing to pay for a feature that you are already paying for once?

    If I have a limit on my data plan (Verizon “unlimited” is still 5 GB), why does it matter if I use that with my phone, or laptop/tablet via wi-fi through my 3G connection? I have to pay $20 a month to use the data I’m paying for on my plan?

    This is the reason I’m not adopting the whole tablet idea… it’s just a way to get consumers to pay a second time.

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