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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Pyle" data-source="post: 31134" data-attributes="member: 38">Re: Time for a new phone.What I&#039;ve been using to investigate this is my 3 year old unlocked Nokia 5800 on ATT&#039;s basic email/data plan for dumbphones, which is a $15 monthly charge for unlimited data. There&#039;s a $10 symbian hotspot app that seems to work perfectly and provides up to 128 bit encryption. Whether I&#039;m at my warehouse or at a gig where I&#039;m using the laptop, I need to keep the lappy online but still be able to carry the phone with me. Been doing that for a couple of days now with the nokia. It actually seems to run quite a while without charging, but I do plug the charger in when I sit in front of the computer. The speed is not quite what I got with my verizon 3G aircard, but I expect if I were plugged in to the USB port that it would be. No problems doing this and using other common phone functions at the same time, but I notice occasional light distortion in the incoming phone audio.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mike Pyle, post: 31134, member: 38"] Re: Time for a new phone. What I've been using to investigate this is my 3 year old unlocked Nokia 5800 on ATT's basic email/data plan for dumbphones, which is a $15 monthly charge for unlimited data. There's a $10 symbian hotspot app that seems to work perfectly and provides up to 128 bit encryption. Whether I'm at my warehouse or at a gig where I'm using the laptop, I need to keep the lappy online but still be able to carry the phone with me. Been doing that for a couple of days now with the nokia. It actually seems to run quite a while without charging, but I do plug the charger in when I sit in front of the computer. The speed is not quite what I got with my verizon 3G aircard, but I expect if I were plugged in to the USB port that it would be. No problems doing this and using other common phone functions at the same time, but I notice occasional light distortion in the incoming phone audio. [/QUOTE]

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