Will the wifi hotpot on froyo be free like if how it is if you root your device? Or do you still need to root the device to get free tethering
Will the wifi hotpot on froyo be free like if how it is if you root your device? Or do you still need to root the device to get free tethering
VZW will surely require their standard $20 per month for 2GB of dedicated wifi hotspot data. If you don't want to pay, get something like PDAnet and just do usb tethering.
Depends how well it goes... it's free on my sister's Palm Pre Plus....
On Tmobile not Verizon.....
VZW could give it away just to goad the Death Star and lure the Storm Troopers back to the Jedi realm.
If that were the case, VZW would stick with unlimited smartphone data plans for $30 per month, rather than following AT&T's lead and adopting tiered pricing with limits and overage charges.VZW could give it away just to goad the Death Star and lure the Storm Troopers back to the Jedi realm.
Pre is not the INC. its not nearly as popular. They need to give away free hot spot on the PRE as away to sell devices. It worked on your friend.Nevertheless, I believe they are indeed giving it away on the Pre. A friend of mine got the Pre over the DInc for just that reason.
giving a way a DEVICE, which is a one time cost on which they will make up via the on going data usage rates, is not the same waiving a subscription fee for a service for "life"And, in the long run, they?re giving away USB Wireless Data devices for laptops
You lost me here. VZW doesn't have 4g yet, and when they do it will be LTE, not WiMax (sprint/clear/comcast uses WiMax as their 4g)and they are doing away with all you can eat data with WiMax/4G so they might give the hotspot away to spur high end phone sales, get out from under the USB device giveaway and lure more subscribers away from AT&T.
You lost me here. VZW doesn't have 4g yet, and when they do it will be LTE, not WiMax (sprint/clear/comcast uses WiMax as their 4g)
Sorry, I mis-typed. I meant LTE/3G. Too many FWA's (Friggin Wireless Acronyms) I'll correct my origional post.
True, the Pre is not the Dinc and the Pre is not as popular however, it is a precedent that we have not seen before.
Also, I do agree that devices are one time charges, but if you can get rid of that one time charge and migrate those users to Smart Phones, who you can bill Tiered Buckets of data to, that seems to make sense. Especially since as a hotspot they are also loosing the support issues and development/testing costs of VZ Manager.
Why charge a premium for Hotspot if you’re going to charge for data usage regardless of how it's consumed? The grandfathered pool of unlimited data plans will diminish quickly as folks migrate to new devices and not realize they're new contract will un-grandfather them. So, within two years the folks on true unlimited plans will be very small.
Again, just a thought. I believe they probably will charge, but I can see a reason why they would not.