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Originally Posted by rpmazur
Has anyone tried to tether the Fire to a smartphone for those times that WiFi isn't available?
Just curious, it's not a deal breaker for me, just a curiosity thing.
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Phones that are Wi-Fi hotspot enabled should work with the Fire. Just like any other Wi-Fi hotspot.
Here is some information that may come in handy. It is from a MobileRead forum member who was trying to use an iPhone 4 as mobile hotspot with their Entourage Pocket Edge which is an Android based tablet. They got it to work without any rooting (jailbreaking) their phone or the Android tablet.
I am posting this via being tethered to my iPhone. You are not going to believe what the problem was --appostrophes; as in my phone's name being Dee's iPhone. I had this niggling feeling they might have been screwing something up, but it wasn't until I read the link above about ad-hoc networks and it said right there in black and white, "apostrophes may render the network unreadable." I renamed my iPhonee and BANG! got in. I still had to do some tweeking, like reset the PE and turn my hotspot on and off before I made a real connection.
This is from another Pocket Edge owner who successfully tethered their Android tablet to an Android smart phone:
Just to let folks know the PE establishes wifi connection just fine with phones that are wifi hotspot enabled. Nexus S comes to mind. Anyone else have experience with this?
So yes, it should be possible.