Tag: tethering

Mar 17 2012

Tethering is Coming to Nokia Lumia Phones

Just a quick note for the people out there who have bought or are about to buy Nokia Lumia handets. At the moment, the Lumia 700 and 800 handsets running Windows Phone 7.5 do not include the ability to tether other devices (i.e. use your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot). It looks like that was …

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Oct 01 2011

Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and Internet Sharing

I guess one of the big features that Windows Phone users have been hanging out for is a friendlier solution for internet sharing. Since the initial release, you could make it work by dialling a string of numbers into the phone and manually assigning the APN but it was hardly an elegant and easily invoked …

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Oct 01 2010

Tethering – Should it be a Fundamental Feature in Smartphones?

Tethering with mobile phones has been around for a while although back in the early days of GPRS it was often worse than dial up (not to mention an order of magnitude more expensive). These days with USB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity it seems odd that some smartphones have been slow to allow users the …

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