[TriLUG] OT: Wireless Hotspot weekly rental?

[Ron Kelley]

Slightly OT...

For what its worth, I bought a Nook Color (7" Andriod Tablet) for my son at Barns-N-Nobels for $250.  A week later, we "rooted" it by installing CM7 via microSD card.  It was the best thing we ever did;  he absolutely loves his tablet.  He has access to the full Andriod MarketPlace and has downloaded tons of apps.  Not only is it a very good e-reader, but he can play games, surf the web, get a "terminal" window, and even use it for VPN.

Oh, and 1/2 price of the iPad .


-Ron


On Jul 16, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Jim Ray wrote:

> With cm7, what else do you need to set up hot spot? OpenVPN looks cool.
> Might be time to trade in my CrackBerry in favor of Android...
> 
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> Thanks for all the suggestions.  I've found a number of hotspot rentals
> that would work. I'm going to try putting CM7 on the droid this
> weekend...see how well that works.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> On 7/15/2011 1:23 PM, Magnus wrote:
>> +1 ... I was doing this at the meeting last night until the trilug
> wifi got sorted, use it often.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Jul 15, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com>
> wrote:
>> 
>>> On a recent road trip, with 4x TriLUGers in a car for several hours, 
>>> we used a rooted Andriod phone to act as a hotspot for a variety of 
>>> other devices (netbooks, iPhones, etc).
>>> 
>>> +1 for rooting your phone.
>>> 
>>> Bill
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