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Mango To Support Connection Sharing
Provided Your Carrier Says It's Ok
by Karl Bode Thursday 25-Aug-2011 tags: business · wireless · hardware · wireless
The latest "Mango" update to the Windows Phone platform appears to belatedly support using your phone as a modem (tethering) and using it as a mobile hotspot. A screenshot over at WP Central shows an official instantiation of Internet Sharing on a Samsung Focus running Mango. As with most mobile hotspot features, the update appears to support sharing your 3G connection with up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices. Unfortunately, as with other products, you'll only "officially" be able to use this feature if your wireless carrier says it's ok. Neither AT&T or Verizon like users to tether unofficially, because they're eager to charge you an additional monthly tethering fee for doing absolutely nothing. AT&T has recently been sending warnings to users to root/jailbreak phones and tether unofficially, telling them they'll be automatically upgraded to more expensive plans if they continue their deviant ways.

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cruz1

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So What? Android did this for a while now!

So What? Android did this for a while now! It's the carriers that WILL squash this OR RAPE you in extra charges!

'Mango" just makes me sick... literally when I think about it. Damn Microsoft has to steal (or buy) just about every technology from another product. The LEAST innovative company I've ever seen. Now they COPY Androids naming convention by using foods "Mango" then they come to try and sell this crappy Android wannabe that has no app support. People would really only by this if it wan Win7 apps but it WILL NOT. They hope people are dumb enough to buy it and then get pissed at it later. They should DUMP MANGO just like HP DUMPED WEBOS - that was a smart move by HP!
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Re: So What? Android did this for a while now!

So one of my family members is a beta tester for HTC and I got to use Mango for a good long weekend recently and I was fairly impressed. I have IOS, and Android devices. There is room for another player since Windows Phone 7 has a distinct nod towards business users that IOS and Android do not have.

Lastly Windows Mobile (the older one) was around before any of these IOS and Android devices. It was tethering way back then too so I'm not sure your righteous indignation is well placed here?

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By your logic, it sounds like only Android deserves to have features due to "innovation".

It's MS trying to catch up to the competition and they're making a strong effort to try to enter the market. There really isn't a way to "differentiate" with features such as this. Unless you want MS to share signal by sending out light beams to other devices.
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Out of curiosity, what food is Tango?

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said by cruz1 :

So What? Android did this for a while now!

And my Windows Mobile device had connection sharing when Android was just space rock blasting game, so does that mean OS Android ripped it off from Windows Mobile?

The problem isn't who 'invented' the technology (Windows 98 SE had connection sharing too) its the telco's telling you what you can and can't do with the connection you pay for. I swear the telco's have their hooks in everywhere right from OS and hardware development on up, to maximize their haul and they hold everyone by the short and curlies and I don't see it changing anytime soon.

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Apple is the least innovated company.
They are just very, very good at marketing.

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Do we need to list all the things Android "copied" from Windows & Windows Mobile? Your post makes it sound like you're mad at Microsoft for releasing a mobile OS and nothing more. If you like Android better then go use it. Come back when you have a legitimate criticism of WP7.
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What I like about WP7/7.5 Focus

Live tiles, FaceBook and soon to be Twitter and Skype intergration(Mango) in the OS itself, battery life vs its' Galaxy S cousins, and Zune.
/Will be getting the Samsung SGHi-937 or as I call it Focus II

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Re: What I like about WP7/7.5 Focus

said by odreian615:

Live tiles, FaceBook and soon to be Twitter and Skype intergration(Mango) in the OS itself, battery life vs its' Galaxy S cousins, and Zune.
/Will be getting the Samsung SGHi-937 or as I call it Focus II

or as I call it, 'mine'.

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