David Pouge posted up a review today of the Verizon iPhone 4 and noted in the original review that the device on AT&T would get tethering on Feb 13. That part has been removed from the review now, likely forced out by Apple ninjas. Best Buy has announced that on February 10 it will sell [...]
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iPhone tethering on Feb 13?, Best Buy to sell Verizon iPhone Feb 10, PADACS battery cases
February 3rd, 2011 |
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Verizon iPhone Includes $20 Per Month Data Tethering: Report
January 27th, 2011 |
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Verizon’s iPhone 4 will include 3G tethering for $20 per month for 2GB data, according to a new report. – Verizon plans on offering a 3G wireless hotspot feature with the iPhone 4 for $20 per month for 2GB data, according to an online report.
Brenda Raney, executive director of corporate communications for Verizon Wireless, reportedly confirmed that $20-per-month plan in a Jan. 25 interview with the pu…
RIM’s PlayBook Offers Multitasking and BlackBerry Tethering
January 10th, 2011 |
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Research In Motion used the Consumer Electronics Show to reveal a little more about the PlayBook, its 7-inch tablet aimed at both an enterprise and consumer audience. In contrast to the Apple iPad and growing legions of Android-based tablets, RIM made the decision to build its own proprietary operating system for the device. Hardware-wise, the PlayBook includes front- and rear-facing cameras for video conferencing, and a dual-core processor for running multiple apps simultaneously. Business users may be attracted to the PlayBook’s ability to tether with their BlackBerry. RIM let eWEEK fiddle with the PlayBook for a few minutes at CES, and the experience was largely a smooth one. The device seems capable of operating a handful of apps and games simultaneously with little slowdown, while loading Websites quickly (with Adobe Flash 10.1 support). RIM is currently tweaking the device’s battery life to provide what executives describe as a full day’s worth of use. The question now is whether third-party app developers—and consumers—will embrace the platform. – …
RIM’s PlayBook Offers BlackBerry Tethering, Multitasking, Sleek OS
January 10th, 2011 |
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RIM’s PlayBook offers a sleek and powerful user interface, but success will depend on factors like third-party apps. RIM offered eWEEK a brief PlayBook hands-on. – Research In Motion hopes its upcoming PlayBook tablet can carve a place for
itself in the burgeoning tablet market. It certainly faces some tough
competition in that quest, from not only the Apple iPad but also from a growing
number of Android-based devices.
But RIM’s 7-inch tablet possesses so…
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Will Not Support Tethering
September 24th, 2010 |
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Microsoft confirms that Windows Phone 7 will not support tethering at launch, despite online reports to the contrary. – For a few magical moments Sept. 24, news spread across the Web that Windows
Phone 7 would support tethering, allowing anyone with the soon-to-be-released
smartphones to connect nearby devices to the Web.
The news appeared on Websites such as WMExperts,
quoting a Windows Weekly Podcast in which W…
iPhone launch day wrap up, Jobs confirms WiFi sync someday, Apple clarifies iPhone 4 reception issues
June 25th, 2010 |
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Yesterday was the big day for iPhone 4 fans and the device went official around the country. SlashGear has a nice wrap up of the launch day for one of the most in demand handsets ever.
If you have been wishing and hoping for wireless sync for the iPhone, that wish is coming – eventually – [...]
No iPhone tethering for iPad, decoding new data plan rates, MasterCard app enables money send and receive
June 4th, 2010 |
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You won’t be able to tether your iPhone to the iPad and it’s not AT&T’s fault this time. Apple has apparently blocked the Bluetooth profile on the iPad that allows tethering and has no plans to enable it.
Computerworld has posted up a story on decoding the new AT&T iPhone data plans and helping the user [...]
ATandT to Offer iPhone Tethering, Cheaper Data Plans
June 3rd, 2010 |
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AT&T introduced two new data pricing plans it will begin offering June 7, along with the option of tethering, for an additional $20 per month. The tethering offer we be extended to iPhone customers, said AT&T, once Apple releases iPhone OS 4 this summer. – AT amp;T began to answer the question of how wireless carriers will
wean data-devouring customers away from the all-you-can-eat pricing
plans theyve become accustomed to and toward more variable pricing models instead.
AT amp;T on June 2 introduced two new wireless data plans as well as
a…
iPhone 3G select button disappears, iPhone for 3G tether on iPad, Sam Mendes to direct Apple commercials for new iPhone rumor surfaces
May 26th, 2010 |
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Anyone who follows the iPhone knows that the devices are unveiled at WWDC, set to kick off in only a few days. The launch of a new iPhone will mean the iPhone 3G will be killed off and the select button to buy the device has been removed from the Apple Store, is this a [...]
ATandT May Support Tethering on Apple iPhone OS 4
May 19th, 2010 |
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In the fourth beta release of Apple’s iPhone OS 4, developers discover a pop-up window suggesting that AT&T may be finally ready to support tethering on the new iPhone. – Apple introduced the fourth beta version of its iPhone 4 operating system
May 18, and developers were surprised to discover a feature that suggests
AT T may be finally ready to allow customers to use their iPhones for
tethering, Mac Rumors first reported.
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Were AT T to allow tethering as sev…
Android 2.2 Boasts 450% Performance Boost, Tethering, WiFi Hotspot
May 14th, 2010 |
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Google Android 2.2 sports a 450 percent performance boost over Android 2.1. Froyo on the Nexus One ran at 37.5 megaflops, or equal to one million floating-point operations per second. That compares to speeds of Android 2.1 on the Nexus One of 6.5 to 7 megaflops. The OS also supports tethering and serves as a WiFi hotspot. These are significant features in the OS, so the looming question is how long before Android 2.2 is featured on smartphones. – <p>The next version of Google’s mobile operating system is
expected to be launched at Google I/O next week, but details of Froyo, as
Android 2.2 is known, are emerging early.</p>
<p>Adobe and Google have already confirmed Android 2.2
supports (/c/a/Application-Development/Google-Android-22-to-Su…
China Unicom to get WiFi iPhone, No iPad/iPhone tethering, iPhone video call rate surfaces
March 8th, 2010 |
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According to reports, China Unicom is set to sell the iPhone with WiFi. The current handsets it sells lack WiFi while gray market alternatives have it.
Steve Jobs has made it clear that those who buy the iPad in April won’t be able to tether the device to the iPhone for 3G connectivity. That is hardly [...]