Coming soon: Mobile Hotspot on O2 27
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 4:06 pm EDT 
Have a Palm Pre on O2, but find yourself envious of your American compatriots on Verizon running Mobile Hotspot left and right? Fret not, for your quandary will soon be quashed. In a tweet on one of O2 Germany’s official Twitter feeds, the following (translated into English) was posted.
Coming soon: the Palm Mobile Hotspot App. Thus the Pre becomes a UMTS Wi-Fi router with WPA or WEP encryption - ideal for iPods & iPads.
Zing! Especially considering that at launch won’t be able to get a 3G iPad in Europe at all. This is the first official word we have of the Mobile Hotspot app making the leap to another carrier. Because the Pre on O2 is a GSM phone, users will be able to still place and receive phone calls while running Mobile Hotspot, something their Verizon brethren can’t do. No word on pricing, though we expect the app to be free, and O2 Germany currently runs a tethering plan starting at €25 a month. Correction: Tethering is offered free-of-charge for O2 subscribers, but watch your usage to avoid going over your plan's usage cap.
Thanks to Ruben for the tip!
27 Comments
Cool!!
Good I suppose but the fact that android and the HD2 can do this with no tethering subscription using nothing but the standard data plan makes it a little annoying that you have to pay extra for this. (Fair enough the android app can only tether one device but the HD2 has a full router app like the pre)
Actually, you dont have to pay extra for tethering on o2 Germany. Thats a wrong information in the article.
That's ridiculously expensive and won't fly in the UK. Here you can get a USB dongle from Three (carrier name) for
what?!!!
the Verizon lot cant use the app and make calls???????
can't multitask? :P
When will a patch be made to easily activate the Mobile Hot Spot app on a Pre using Sprint in the US? Version 1.4 has been out for almost a month and the app is still useless.
It's not a matter of a simple patch. Palm altered several core files with the Sprint 1.4 ROM that made MHS stop working. Better question is this: when will Sprint wise up and simply offer tethering service to their users?
If this is just connectiong to o2 hot spots, it will be included in the 'Unlimited Data' bolt on for
It's not connecting to O2 hotspots. Mobile Hotspot turns your phone into a hotspot.
Actually tethering is free in Germany. Your bandwith will be downgraded to GPRS if you get over a certain amount though. The 25 Euros is for 2 GB of data iIrc.
It's quite nice, I used this when I had to wait for my DSL.
It's 5GB for the EUR 25.- plan. And, as you said, after that it goes down to GPRS w/o extra charge. So '...but watch your usage to avoid going over your plan's usage cap.' Actually, no. Unless you want to avoid having plenty of month left and being alredy on GPRS ;-)
O2 definitely is cool with you tethering, no matter what data plan you're on. (My O2 Pr? tethers just fine via bluetooth.
I have a O2 data plan for only 10Euros with 200MB Data in 3G-Speed, after that it's just GPRS speed. But 200mb is just fine if you don't watch Videos or stream music.
So it's good to see, that O2 still cares, even if they don't market the Pre that much anymore.
Can't wait to see this! What's up with tethering via Bluetooth??
Can't wait to see this! What's up with tethering via Bluetooth??
Man. Hey Sprint, take note of the word FREE. I think if Sprint would simply allow tethering but just force the 5 gig cap out there, they'd attract WAY more customers. Heck, just charge an extra $10 and throw in a an extra 2 gigs a month and I bet that would even do the trick. They could even market that. 'So you want unlimited phone, data,text, AND tethering? How about $109 at Sprint per month. Try over $160 on Verizon and ATT.' Beat that!
Awesome! Bring it on!
I was just about to do it myself through quickinstall. I think I can wait a bit longer.
"This is the first official word we have of the Mobile Hotspot app making the leap to another carrier."
Nope.
It's already being advertised for French Pre Plus on Palm.com: http://www.palm.com/fr/fr/products/phones/preplus/index.html
But it may well be the first available.
Edit: For the Pixi Plus too...
Tethering for free, no extra fees on top of your current plan? Sprint, are you getting this? One up Verizon by doing the same thing O2 is doing.
O please please please pretty please, let it be free and coming to o2 UK. This would be the best thing ever, and make my friends eternally jealous.
Not to mention there is always a time when you really need some internet on your laptop.
Please o2 UK if you see this, make it happen. Make me fall in love with you...
By reading different comments from different articles for a while it seems American mobile subscriptions are quite expensive.
Here in the UK on O2 i pay
Wait a minute, free of charge? Does this mean I don't even have to get O2's tethering plan?? Because that would frickin ROCK!!
Really hope O2 UK will follow O2 Germany's lead.
"Does this mean I don't even have to get O2's tethering plan??"
there does not exist an tethering plan -- just a data plan. it's up to you, how you use that data (at least in O2 Germany).
O2 Ireland does not allow tethering by BlueTooth. Hoping they fix this soon.
Palm needs too drop O2 ASAP. From day one the Pre played second fiddle to the Iphone. God knows why Palm went with them in the first place. Terrible 3g signal and network is always crashing. Should have gone with Vodafone.
In Germany the iPhone is on T-Mobile so they are not competing on the same carrier. And yeah, there is no such thing as a tethering plan. I even can't rember if there ever was something like that. You only pay for data. That's it. On O2 you can get a cheap flatrate if you accept the limit for 3G. Actually I already did GPRS-tethering using PalmOS three years ago. The only con about internet on GSM is that you are kept behind a NAT (at least on all German carriers I already tried).
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