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I'm interested in buying a tablet to use as a hotspot since AT&T's per device fees for dedicated hotspots are double what they are for tablets. Can the AT&T Tab4 (SM-T337A) provide a wireless hotspot for other devices? Can it provide a connection via USB tethering? AT&T's website seems to...

The CelFi that T-Mobile offers is a lot different than the Microcell. The CelFi just repeats a signal from a T-Mobile tower so your data speeds should be close to what you'd get connected to the same tower over the same band. All you need is the repeater and a weak T-Mobile signal, though...

That chart in an of itself is a REALLY terrible way to persuade someone the iPhone 6 is behind. All I can see if that the iPhone 6 is 1% slower than the Xperia Z1, and at least 1% slower than 13 other phones. I don't know about you, but I'm willing to bet most users do not care and could not...

I have one of the 3G Microcells and the data speeds are pretty abysmal; nowhere near normal HSPA+ speeds. Normal calls work great though. In truth the data speeds don't matter that much since a wireless access point hooked up to the same network the microcell is hooked into will work a lot...

As a guy who ordered an iPhone 6 I will completely admit that Apple is playing catchup to most Android devices when it comes to features. My old S4, my Moto X, and my Nexus 7 all had features that were above and beyond what was available on the equivalent Apple device. What I've come to...

Parts of Gaithersburg and Germantown have a good signal. Parts are terrible. There are a number of areas near Clopper and Great Seneca where maintaining a signal at all is tough, and as soon as you go indoors it's gone. I work near the Bethesda Metro, and the signal was great. No complains...

I think I'm going to give it a try, at least for the 14 day return period. As much as I like my Moto X the lingering signal drop issues, poor camera, and ongoing security update issues have me considering other options. The Moto X really convinced me 4.7 is the right size device for me (and...

In the case I keep having with the screen on the signal loss is definitely "legitimate" in that it's not connected to the cellular network, checking for email, and receiving voice calls. On the other hand isn't legitimate in that the phone is in an area where it should definitely have a signal...

I've had an issue with my Moto X since I got it about a year ago that every once in a while (maybe every other week) I realize that it's showing absolutely no cellular signal in an area that I know has great coverage. Toggling airplane mode causes it a bounce back. In a couple cases I've...

Re: 4.4.4 update for T-Mobile Moto X? There is only one difference between 4.4.3 and 4.4.3, and that's a fix for the OpenSSL man-in-the-middle security vulnerability. The problem is that there are absolutely no OEMs who seem to take Android security issues seriously. I really wish Google...

I wouldn't if I were you. There are a number of colleges that offer very specific Computer Engineering programs (I graduated from one at UMD) that are usually about half way in between Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, with a lot of architecture thrown in to boot. If you aren't...

App security is one thing (which I agree needs some work), but my chief concern is device security. Because of the lax practices for firmware updates the vast majority of Android devices in the field have some number of well known exploitable bugs. It's not just the carriers that perpetuate...

Same issue using an unlocked (T-Mobile) model on AT&T. I'll try to open Chrome or Google Now and realize I have absolutely no data connection even though my signal is strong. Usually toggling airplane mode fixes it, but until I notice it's pretty clear that I'm also not receiving any data (no...

Can you do Google Play Music on a Google TV product?

If you buy the SIM pack at Walmart it includes all the SIMs you could need. Standard/Micro and Nano for both AT&T and T-Mobile. It's more expensive than ordering the SIM from Straight Talk's website but the website doesn't offer nano-SIMs and you can be 100% guaranteed you'll get one that fits.