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Use Your Cellphone as a WiFi Hotspot

Posted in Mobile by Dan at 10:18 am
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So you have a laptop, and you have a cellphone yet the two don’t talk. What’s the deal wit THAT?! With the CradlePoint PHS300 you can turn a Blackberry, RAZR or other cellular device with USB into a personal 802.11b/g wireless hotspot.

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All you need to do is plug the USB cable from your supported cell phone into the router and you’re ready to go. The router supports NAT, has a Firewall, access control, UPnP, and 64/128-bit WEP (11b/g), WPA/WPA2, and WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK. Priced at $179.

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4 Responses to “Use Your Cellphone as a WiFi Hotspot”

  1. E.T.Cook says:
    3/26/2008 at 11:24 am

    If this supported the iPhone, I would purchase this in a heartbeat. The fact that iPhones can’t be tethered is absurd.

  2. Zoli says:
    3/26/2008 at 12:15 pm

    How about support for iPhone?

  3. Dave Zatz says:
    3/26/2008 at 8:48 pm

    A Sprint-branded version is coming too… I have the full-fledged MBR1000 model and love it.

  4. cuute says:
    4/19/2008 at 12:39 pm

    Will my ipod touch work if my cell phone have wifi???

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