Mobile Hotspot

has that been a good phone for you? I almost got one, but everyone I've talked to says they fall apart after a few months.

 

I have the Palm Pre and love the hotspot. Make sure your in verizons network when you use it. I used mine in an extended network and got hit with $85 charge. Fyi, I have had my phone for about 7 months and it is working great. You have to be gentle with the touch screen though. It is sensitive.

 

Sprint has disabled this feature on all phones.
The only two you can do this with now is the Epic 4G and HTC EVO

 

Verizon had this deal out with the Palm Pre Plus, but they ran out of phones last month. You can still get it on the smaller Palm Pixi. They have a hotspot app on them, using it is free, you're capped at 5 gigs and the standard $.05 per megabyte charge is added if you go over. All their other Android and Blackberry based smartphones that have this feature charge an extra $25 a month. Their Mifi is a pretty good deal too. It's $50 a month for 5 gigs, but the overage charges are only $10 a gigabyte.

 

I use Easy Tether on my Droid.
Verizon wanted to charge me 20 bucks a month for the mobile hot spot and then it was limited to a certain amount of data and then huge fees per minute. I can't believe they get by with these practices.

EasyTether shares your Android smartphone connection with your PC. This app allows you to tether your Android to a desktop or a notebook computer. EasyTether uses exactly the same data plan that is used for the on-phone Internet access like in the built-in browser or e-mail app or youtube application. No additional tethering fees.