Airports are always crowded during the holiday season. This is especially true around Christmas. In an effort to keep you connected in the event of a flight delay or layover, Skype is offering everyone an hour of Wi-Fi in the United States from December 21 to December 27.

Moments before T-Mobile chief marketing officer Cole Brodman revealed the pricing an release date for the Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC Amaze 4G, the curtain was pulled back on T-Mobile’s latest Wi-Fi hotspot. The Huawei-built Sonic 4G Mobile Hotspot will be released in October, but T-Mobile does not have a price set for the Sonic 4G.

Verizon is following in AT&T’s footsteps by tracking down people who use hacked smartphones to use Verizon’s data network to tether or access hotspots. Verizon has not made an official announcement about this, but the new data requirement has gone into effect recently according to ReadWriteWeb.

What’s the most common phrase heard around the Gadgetell newsroom? Is it “I love Apple?”, “that’s cool!” or “sweet!”? Answer: none of them, it’s “they are on crack.” This week we take a look back at the things that made us chuckle in the tech world. This week, it seems there were more folks on more »

Android 2.2 has a wonderful feature in that tethering is enabled, but with that — the carriers can limit or block the functionality. And that seems to be the case with the T-Mobile G2. According to a recent statement from T-Moible; “T-Mobile does not currently support handset tethering or offer a tethering rate plan. Though tethering more »

Some good and bad with this latest bit, but first the news — Windows Phone 7 handsets will all have the ability to tether. “Official confirmation that WP7 supports tethering if carriers enable it (same as Android/BB/iPhone) http://twit.tv/ww174 @ 1:05:40 #wp7 #yam” Sounds good, except — the decision to allow tethering will be left up more »

A few weeks ago, Virgin Mobile released it’s pre-paid MiFi device for those who want 3G coverage on mobile device but don’t want to pay for it every month. That coverage is nice, but what about those of us who want more than 3G speeds? Sure, there’s open hotspots in many places, but WiFi is more »

It looks like Huawei has recently introduced their latest mobile hotspot modem. The model is the E583C and its sporting a rather sophisticated black and silver exterior. In addition from the looks though, the Huawei E583C is also touting a 1 inch color OLED display, 3.5G HSPA connectivity, a microSD card slot and a USB more »

More rumors on the Verizon front, this time they are dealing with prepaid data and the FiveSpot mobile hotspot modem. According to the details of the rumor, both are expected to come available sometime in late August. Or more specifically the data rumors are suggested for August 23rd. As for what may be coming, a more »

Verizon may be getting ready to roll out a “Global Ready” 3G modem. The modem is MiFi-like in that its wireless and offers a connection by way of Wi-Fi. The device is called the FiveSpot and appears like it will be a match for those global phones in that it will have both CDMA and more »