All the cool mobile operating systems are adding mobile hotspot features to let you share your smartphone’s cellular data connection with other devices over WiFi. Google Android does it. Apple iOS does it. So it should come as no surprise that RIM’s BlackBerry OS will soon get the feature. The folks at n4bb have a first look at how the mobile hotspot feature will work… Read more »

Verizon and Apple today announced that the iPhone 4 will be available from Verizon starting in February. For the most part, the Verizon iPhone is exactly like the AT&T version, but there are two key differences. First, the antenna has been tweaked to work with Verizon’s WCDMA service. Second, Verizon users will be able to use their phones as portable hotspots, sharing their 3G internet… Read more »

Plenty of coffee shops, airports and other locations grant you free access to WiFi — as long as you open a web browser and check a box saying you agree to to the terms and conditions. That’s easy enough if the first thing you do after connecting to the internet is open a web browser. But what if you’re on your phone and you want… Read more »

So you’re wandering down the street in a strange city looking for a WiFi hotspot. You could do what I usually do and fire up the Google Maps app on your phone and search for coffee shops or libraries and hope they have WiFi. Or you could fire up the new Lookator augmented reality app that shows you nearby WiFi access points. The user interface… Read more »

Want to turn your Android phone into a portable WiFi hotspot without installing a custom ROM or waiting for Google to officially roll out Android 2.2 Froyo? If your phone is running Google Android 2.1, then you can. This only works on phones that have been rooted (giving you access to settings and files that are otherwise off limits), but if you’ve already got root… Read more »

Google has a pretty awesome trick up its sleeve for Android 2.2 (code-named Froyo). TechCrunch reports Froyo will ship with built-in tethering capabilities. In other words, you’ll be able to connect a laptop or desktop computer to your Android phone via a USB cable and share the 3G mobile broadband connection. You’ll also be able to turn your phone into a mobile WiFi hotspot, sharing… Read more »