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hey guys it's Brad amendment from pocketnow.com one of the coolest technologies to come out in the last few years is the wireless personal hotspot you may know it as a mifi the mifi is available on various carriers like Sprint and Verizon it comes in the form of a small device about the size of a deck of cards but usually a lot thinner and what it does is it takes in the wireless data the internet connection from the cell phone company and spits out Wi-Fi that you can use for your laptop or netbook or iPad or whatever needs Wi-Fi these things are super cool because they have a lot of battery life they offer very high speeds of connection and you can use them pretty much anywhere so you can use them at the park the backseat of a car the starbucks really wherever you are problem is they cost a lot to use every month so they're about fifty to sixty dollars to use the data and you probably already have a data plan on your smartphone so in this video we're going to show you three different programs on Android web OS and windows mobile that will turn your phone into a personal wireless hotspot we'll see how well it works and the speeds that you get through them let's take a look okay let's start things off the android phones we're going to go into settings and change the Wi-Fi network after I turn on the Wi-Fi router program or the wireless tether program here on the nexus one so it says press here start tethering and it's going to take a moment okay and it's tethering and I should see Android appear here in the Wi-Fi network list after it refreshes good there it is and I'm going to connect to that great we're connect ok let's first test the speed right now we're still tethered here with the the Android application so I'm gonna go to speedtest.net application and hit begin test see you again we're probably going to get over 2 megabits per second which is quite impressive to think that you can take your cell phone out of your pocket and get a 2.2 megabit per second connection on your ipad or laptop or netbook really fantastic and we're gonna get one point five megabits per or 1.6 megabits per second up almost 1.7 so let's go to the web and just browse around here we're on pocket now calm I'm going to just click on a permalink and see how fast it was just so you can get a sense for what this would be like on your laptop or other device so pretty fast things pop up pretty quickly we can jump around to various things and it's it's fast it's pretty fast so let's test the next device and see how it compares to this so next up we are going to use the touch pro 2 here and on the touch pro two are going to use the Wi-Fi router application well known application that a lot of people use to get that wireless hotspot so i'm gonna click start and says connecting and i'm going to jump into Wi-Fi and change the network oh wait down here it says Wi-Fi router and that is the touch pro two were connected now so again both of these devices the Android device the nexus one and the touch pro two are both on a tease hsdpa network which is relatively fast around here so I'm gonna jump back in to speedtest.net we're trying to be about 2.2 megabits per second don't think we're going to but let's see how fast we can get through the touch pro touch pro2 actually looks like about 1.7 going to one point yep 1.8 megabits per second down which is still quite impressive and then we get about one point point five or 1.6 up let's go to the web browser and see what it's like to just bounce around to different things so I'll tap on that story and see how fast it is so naturally it's a little bit slower than before because the the clock speed is a little bit lower and wait for that to load and we'll jump to the next thing down here not too bad though so let's test the last device here the verizon palm pre plus using the wireless hotspot application that you could get on the market I think you still can get it on the market or they call it the catalogue for webos so we'll go back here we'll turn on the hot spot program and then we'll change the settings okay down here here we are webOS network connect to that and we're connected and i just got a vibration from the the palm pre plus to let me know that i am connected so i'm going to jump back here go to the speedtest.net application click begin test okay so we're on verizon's evdo rev a network which isn't that strong around here so as you can see we're not getting nearly as fast speeds as we get on a tease hsdpa network so much slower but still not too bad let's jump into the browser and go to another story del lightning Windows Phone 7 leak see how fast it loads so definitely much lower than the touch pro 2 in the nexus one but still certainly capable if you have a webos device so again that was just a quick look at three devices that can act as a wireless hotspot again i'll post links on pocket now calm so that if you have windows mobile phone and android phone or a webos device you can get this application and if you have an unlimited data plan or a data plan capable of tethering than you will be able to do this that's it for now