[Fed-Talk] RE: iPhone Tethering (was iPad)
[Fed-Talk] RE: iPhone Tethering (was iPad)
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] RE: iPhone Tethering (was iPad)
- From: "Miller, Timothy J." <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:50:14 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: iPhone Tethering (was iPad)
Ditto on current Android devices. To make things worse on the G1, USB charging doesn't provide sufficient power to run WiFi or Bluetooth, 3G, phone, *and* charge the battery all at the same time, so wireless tethering simply isn't an option at all.
-- Tim
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>From: fed-talk-bounces+tmiller=email@hidden [mailto:fed-
>talk-bounces+tmiller=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Orth, Lonny
>J CIV N62306
>Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:01 AM
>To: email@hidden
>Subject: [Fed-Talk] iPhone Tethering (was iPad)
>
>>> Plus your iPhone battery would drain like water.
>
>I can attest to that. I am one of those folks who got NetShare when it
>was available on the App Store (best $9.99 I've ever spent). When I'm
>in a pinch and need to get internet access on my Air, I'll run Netshare.
>But you can practically watch the battery gauge drop while the phone is
>running both WiFi and, in my case, EDGE at the same time. (My wife has
>a 3G, and I've put Netshare on her phone but never run it. I can only
>imagine that the 3G tethered connection would be no better than EDGE.)
>In other words, you'll want the phone plugged in to external power if
>you plan on tethering any longer than 30 minutes at a time.
>
>Lonny J. Orth
>Electronics Engineer
>Naval Oceanographic Office
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