Most likely they will allow hot spots. It seems that after some "direction seeking" Apple decided that the users with factory unlocked phones should have every feature available. IMHO, its the right policy since these users have paid their phones in full so setting artificial limitations would be just plain wrong.
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iOS 4.3 to Bring Mobile Hotspots to GSM iPhones, Pending Carrier Support?
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Most likely they will allow hot spots. It seems that after some "direction seeking" Apple decided that the users with factory unlocked phones should have every feature available. IMHO, its the right policy since these users have paid their phones in full so setting artificial limitations would be just plain wrong.
Bring it on!
Bring it on ATT, at no extra cost, with your "robust" network and maybe I'll stick around with you!
Bring it on ATT, at no extra cost, with your "robust" network and maybe I'll stick around with you!
all iPhones worldwide were gimped of MMS until Apple updated software in 09...plenty of other AT&T smart phones could MMS
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Super fast or hyper fast.... You'll be using data and wifi all the time so it will run the battery dry fast.
Factory Unlocked iPhones are available in North America!
Incorrect. You can easily purchase a factory unlocked iPhone from any Apple Store location in Canada...
Incorrect. You can easily purchase a factory unlocked iPhone from any Apple Store location in Canada...
Bluetooth tethering uses less battery than WiFi tethering. Even then it's no more than few hours battery life.
I think you don't quite understand CDMA and GSM. These are hardware features. You can't unify them with a software update. You need a physical redesign of the phone internals to unify them.
4.3 will likely bring the Personal Hotspot feature to the exsiting GSM iPhones, though.
It seems that factory unlocked models are or are becoming available in most markets. One could assume that at some point Apple would start selling factory unlocked phones in US too but then again if you want one you'll be paying around $550 (16GB) to $780 (32GB) for it.
I understand... I meant the current software for gsm phones is 4.2.1, and for cdma is supposably 4.2.5
I was asking will 4.3 have the drivers for both?
will 4.3 be released before february....? It would make sense they haven't seeded anything to developers, cuz then everyone would realize that tethering is coming
lame! .... how do you know?
I mean I understand that having unnecessary drivers would be a waste of space, but seems far better than having two versions of ios
4.3 is likely bringing feature parity to CDMA/GSM iPhones, I think. They might even be different firmware IPSWs (hardware changes, minimizing IPSW distribution size) but I believe they'll have the same features.
I believe that 4.3 (if it's called 4.3) won't be released before Feb 10th. It would just be weird to seed those features to AT&T users before Verizon users get the chance to receive their iPhones.
So my take is: 4.2.5 or 4.3 being released on Feb 10th and bringing the Personal Hotspot to existing iPhones.
A deal breaker!
Mobile hotspot capability is definitely a probable deal breaker for many customers giving the cost and hassle of a separate battery-powered hotspot device. It is essential for AT&T to compete on this feature and I would be happy to pay up to $30 extra a month for it (preferably less than that of course).
Mobile hotspot capability is definitely a probable deal breaker for many customers giving the cost and hassle of a separate battery-powered hotspot device. It is essential for AT&T to compete on this feature and I would be happy to pay up to $30 extra a month for it (preferably less than that of course).
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If it's free, Great, if not, forget it..yawn.
I'll stick with MyWi as long as AT&T believes they can double charge me for the same bits and get away with it.
If it's free, Great, if not, forget it..yawn.
I'll stick with MyWi as long as AT&T believes they can double charge me for the same bits and get away with it.
They'll have to have different basebands because of the different network types, so it's highly likely they'll have different versions of iOS.
As for wifi hotspots, nice feature, but nothing major given tethering has existed for a while. Though maybe time for Apple to give up the ghost in trying to block tethering on the iPad given you'll be able to do it via this? Why not give the bluetooth option and save everyone some battery?
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