Droid X Mobile Hotspot Feature Works Better than a Real Router!
Today I took my Droid X to my parents home where they have a Linksys router. Well, I did a test where I placed my Droid X close to my router and set it on its Mobile Hotspot mode.
There’s always a “dead spot” on the other side of my parents house where the Linksys router fails often.
Surprisingly, I was in that same “dead spot” and I picked up the Droid X Mobile Hotspot signals just fine. In fact, it was over 50% signal while the Linksys Router gets near 5-10% at best.
That’s when I realized that the WiFi on the Droid X is really powerful, the most powerful I have seen for a smartphone.
I have tried the same tests with both my Palm Pre and Nexus One but none of them are as strong.
Perhaps the double antenna design of the Droid X is the reason?
I don’t know for sure but the Droid X Mobile Hotspot works really well, it’s definitely worth the extra $20/month to get the feature.
July 16th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Excelent.
[Reply]
July 16th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
[...] via droid X [...]
July 18th, 2010 at 10:37 am
[...] I think Droid X is much better phone with almost twice bigger screen, WiFi Mobile Hotspot feature up to 5 devices(which works better than a router), HDMI or DLNA output to HDTV, and better network on Verizon [...]
July 23rd, 2010 at 5:27 pm
[...] course, for those of you who are computer/smartphone illiterate, no worries as Verizon also offers their Mobile Hotspot functionality for extra $20/month, which is really good and we highly recommended it actually over the free [...]
July 24th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
[...] those of you who want to wifi tethering mobile hotspot functionality, you can either use Verizon’s $20/month Mobile Hotspot feature OR you can also root your Droid X then install the 3rd party app Android WiFi [...]