Who needs a MiFi when you can have a Pre Plus instead
A few days ago I thought the Novatel MiFi personal 3G wifi router was a cool gadget. If you missed that post, read it here. Now I hear that Verizon is bringing a new app to the brand new Palm Pre/Pixie Plus that turns the phone into a wifi hotspot that up to five devices (laptops etc) can use to access the internet via the phone’s 3G connection. How cool is that? Why has no one else done this before? Conceptually any phone with support for wifi and 3g should be able to do this.
Verizon is going to charge an extra US$40 for this, which will include a 5Gb a month allowance. And I thought broadband allowances were a unique feature of the South African networking landscape (we call them caps). Here’s hoping that the independent developer community will run with the idea and develop the same type of app for all the mobile platforms.
