Your Motorola Droid cannot support Hotspot technology
Recently Androids newest OS version 2.2 has been making rounds to the usual suspects. Within this week the EVO and the original Droid should be seeing Android 2.2 or Froyo updates. However within the mists of these updates comes some sad news for the owners of the original Motorola Droid.
With the Droid expecting an update to Android OS version 2.2 or Froyo this week, a little tid bit of information has surfaced about the Motorola Droids capabilities. The Froyo update will give certain devices the ability to be used as a mobile hot spot. The technology would allow the user to use their phone as a mobile ‘modem’ providing wireless data to anything that tethers itself to it. This is an amazingly helpful function that in some cases provides full in home internet services to some users. However, recently Brenda Raney a spokes person for Verizon has gone on record telling Engadget.com that the original Motorola Droid simply does not have the necessary hardware to accomplish such a feat. Raney was quoted saying “doesn’t have [the] hardware to support the mobile hotspot” in regard to the Droid that started it all. The idea of hotspot functionality is at the forefront of Verizon’s new ad campaign, as is a slew of new Droids. The Droid X is currently making its rounds, and the Droid 2 will be on its way in the near future.
Is this reality? Is the original Droid missing some needed hardware to establish this hotspot feature or could this simply be a strategic point, made by Verizon to simply urge you to by a new device? Depending on who you talk to hotspot technology from a handheld is not a must for their new phones, but the option to use it weighs in heavily.
Tell us what you think, are you a Droid user?
Tags: droid, Froyo, 2.2, hotspot, motorola
My first generation DROID has many problems. The most re-occurring problem is clicking on somebodies name and sending a text message to somebody different, yet it still shows the right name, just wrong number. Here recently i received a phone call and the other person could not hear me but i could hear her. I reset my phone by taking the battery out for a minute or two and so far it has worked. I will not suggest this phone to any of my friends or family.
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The Motorola Droid can tether and there are plenty of apps out there to allow it.
Why they are holding this back from their users with blatant lies is beyond ridiculous.
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First of all, that’s BS. Second of all, why do I want to give Verizon another $30 a month to tether. It seems like just another way to get have folks buy yet another phone.
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I am a original Droid user and would love to have hotspot, but it is not a deal breaker if it doesn’t have it. For me the Droid X’s faster processor and beautiful screen are the allure. The downside is the lack of a hard keyboard, and that we don’t know when X will get 2.2. I don’t know if there could be a hardware limitation keeping the original Droid from being a hotspot, but it sounds plausible and any company stupid enough to straight up lie these days and think they will get way with it, is sadly mistaken. The geeks will keep them honest. I tether with EasyTether and it works great.
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I have the Droid and I have used it with a 3rd party tether so i think it is BS if the manufacture cannot get it to tether.
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Hey I have a droid and have had no problems with it .i don’t need to tether and no need for hotspot.Verizon didn’t have to update at all I am very happy to get this update and if I need to tether I will root my droid.
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I know for a fact that’s bogus. I have personally rooted and used Android Wireless tether on the original Droid. I’m calling Verizon/Motorola’s BS on this one.
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That’s patently false information, to a degree. A rooted Droid should, without any problems, be able to use Barnacle or Android Wireless Tether apps from the market the make use of hotspot functionality. I did it on my Samsung Moment and I do it on my HTC Evo.
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