ColdWater@lemmy.ca to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoI hate Samsung and their dumb software design choices, and this is one of them. Why do I need a SIM card to enable a hotspot whereas every other phone works without one?lemmy.caimagemessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down129file-text
arrow-up157arrow-down1imageI hate Samsung and their dumb software design choices, and this is one of them. Why do I need a SIM card to enable a hotspot whereas every other phone works without one?lemmy.caColdWater@lemmy.ca to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square33fedilinkfile-text
This phone is broken (broken screen) and was given to me, so I figured I’d use it as a WiFi extender, but I guess I can’t.
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down2·9 days agoI find it hard to believe all your other phones could do this as it required dual antennas.
minus-squarevaryingExpertise@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·9 days agoIf you just want a local network with DHCP and WPA to do whatever, no uplink is necessary.
minus-squarefluxion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 days agoTotally useless for 99.999% of users (not even exaggerating). Would be nice to have the option though but would mostly just confuse users with was would appear to most to be a totally useless option.
I find it hard to believe all your other phones could do this as it required dual antennas.
If you just want a local network with DHCP and WPA to do whatever, no uplink is necessary.
Totally useless for 99.999% of users (not even exaggerating). Would be nice to have the option though but would mostly just confuse users with was would appear to most to be a totally useless option.