Verizon Wireless will sell a CDMA version of Apple’s iPad tablet, Francis Shammo, chief financial officer of Verizon Communications said yesterday. No word on price or data.
Verizon Wireless announced yesterday that it will begin selling the iPhone on its CDMA network to all customers on Feb. 10. AT&T had been the exclusive carrier of the smartphone since 2007. Verizon currently sells the iPad in its stores, but packaged with their mobile 3G/WiFi device for $629.99 to $829.99.
Apple sold about 7.5 million iPads through September and, according to Goldman Sachs, may sell more than 37 million of the devices this year.
In other news, the personal hotspot feature that debuted on the Verizon iPhone yesterday will be making its way to all iPhones in iOS 4.3, reports Boy Genius Report. There will likely need to be carrier support for this feature, however.
Users who don’t mind jailbreaking their phone, can also install MyWi to enable WiFi tethering. The MyWi website says it will work with all jailbroken iPhones (including 2G/3G/3GS/4) and iPad on 3.1.2 or later.
Other iPhone WiFi apps include:
- WiFi HD. Turns your iOS device into a Wi-Fi hard drive. Connect to a Wi-Fi network and bring up the app. Then you can browse and manage the files on your device via a web browser on any other device or computer connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
- Air Sharing. Like WiFi HD, this app turns your device into a Wi-Fi hard drive. In addition to being able to view and manage files via a Web browser, you can mount it as a drive in Windows, Mac or Linux for even easier access.
- Walkie Talkie. Lets you talk between two iOS devices. Just connect to the same Wi-Fi network, open the app, and it will automatically connect the devices. Then just press the button to talk.
- WiFi-Where. Scans the air waves and shows all the nearby Wi-Fi networks and their details, such as SSID, signal (including raw RSSI), encryption status, and MAC address.
- yFy Network Finder. Another WiFi stumbler. In addition to a text listing, you can see a map view of detected spots.
