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5thwheeleroldma
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Nov 25, 2015

Does Using SmartPhone as Hotspot Ruin Battery?

I'm signing up for verizon smart phones and one of the big attractions was that I could use one of the smartphones as a hotspot and dump my verizon hotspot I have used for years --- would save me lots...
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docj
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Dec 01, 2015
dclark1946 wrote:
(unlike AT&T)you can not use your phone for any other purpose if you are using it as a hot spot.



With all due respect this hasn't been true for quite a while for most Verizon phones. Android 4G phones have always been able to handle simultaneous voice and data and newer iPhones can also. We have two Galaxy S4's and use both of them as hotspots. That way when one of us leaves and takes a phone, the other person still has phone and data capability.

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