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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
Most mobile phones which broadcast wifi provide an access point as well -- so you are good to go.
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This is complete misinformation. More often than not, in fact, I daresay, 90% of the time, the phones that share their internet via wifi do so in "ad-hoc" mode, and not "infrastructure" mode, as required by the specs on the k3. To call it fear-mongering is laughable. It's a simple fact that anybody familiar with cell phones understands.
I think the hangup you have might be over the term "infrastructure" mode...all that refers to is a wireless client connecting to a fixed base-station like a router or an access point, as opposed to another wireless device (peer to peer/ad-hoc)
Amazon has a good return policy, so go ahead and buy the wifi version and then try to tether it to your phone. If it doesn't work, you can return it and get the 3g version.
If it means anything, as far as my credibility goes, i'm on staff at howardforums.com, a million-member cell phone forum:
http://www.howardforums.com/member.p...574-matt314159 I don't know everything, but when it comes to cell phones I tend to have my finger on the pulse of their capabilities. If the kindle says it doesn't connect to peer-to-peer networks, you're going to be SOL with software like wmwifirouter, mywi, and probably even the droid. I repeat:
unless your phone supports sharing its connection in infrastructure mode.