Inkman15 wrote:
My iphone 3gs has the option for personal hotspot. Anyone know why?
Yes 🙂 What used to be called "tethering" now is called Personal HotSpot. The big BUT is that on iPhone 4 Apple added an option for the phone to act as a WiFi router.
On 3GS there's no such option, but the seetings are still called "Personal HotSpot".
On 3GS it's exactly what tethering was: use the phone as a modem via Bluetooth or cable - no WiFi hotspot.
Shame on Apple!
The name of the "new" feature is confusing and it's why some members here got personal with other members - if you ask me HotSpot is by definition WiFi. Apple "thinks different" and named the whole set of 3 features (BT tethering, USB tethering and WiFi routing) "HotSpot", the trick being that on 3GS there's no WiFi routing option - as stupid as it seems this is what we got.
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