Lunch at a hotspot (aka Geek out Thursday)

Recently Mike procured for himself a Motorola Droid™ 2. For some reason he didn't hold out for the special edition Droid™ 2 that is coming out... eh - I think I'd rather have the normal one too. It's an improvement on the Droid™ that I used as a trial and posted about, sporting updated hardware and software. Along with those updates are some new features - one of which is that the phone can be used as a 3G hotspot. For those who aren't sure what that type of thing means, a 3G connection would be what people would use to get data/net traffic and what have you to your phone. The hotspot allows you to share that connection with up to 5, I think, devices.

Lunch yesterday rolled around and Mike was having some fun with the Droid™. He started telling Ivan about the hotspot, so Ivan, who owns an iPhone 4, tried connecting to it. Of course, given that the iPhone 4 has 3G coverage of it's own, there was no real point or benefit to connecting to Mike's to share his. Actually, the point was to see if it could be done and to geek out.

Mike set his phone as a hotspot, naming it "blob". Ivan used the iPhone's Wi-Fi connection to connect to Mike's hotspot. Yep, Ivan, or his iPhone depending on how you look at it, was on the blob. Success! It looked like it was all working, until Ivan tried to browse the web. First page he tried to go to he got a note saying that he had to register or something like that. It turns out that you can connect and set it up, but can't do anything else without paying Verizon, Mike's carrier, some extra money each month.

It may not have fully worked, but we all had a laugh, sitting around geeking out.

IvansiPhone - on the blob.

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