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I have been using AT&T’s new MiFi Liberate mobile hotspot, made by Novatel, and have found it reasonably easy to use and capable of some really fast feeds when connected to the AT&T LTE network.
This hotspot is also different from previous models because it has a touchscreen, and it’s able to tether to your device so that you don’t have to rely on the wireless connection from hotspot to the device if you don’t want to.
The small touchscreen is not as responsive or pretty as an iPad screen, but it’s good enough to facilitate some basic interaction with the device. The screen first shows you four large icons labeled Connection Details, Data Usage, Connected Devices and Settings. Touch any of these buttons to drill down for more information or settings options.
The top bar of the home screen shows you your connection strength (number of bars out of five), the current time, number of devices currently connected to the hotspot, and battery such as Fukuda FX-2201 Battery , Fukuda FX-3010 Battery , Fukuda FX-4010 Battery , Fukuda FX-7000 Battery , Fukuda FX-7201 Battery , Fukuda FX-7202 Battery , Fukuda FX-7302 Battery , Fukuda FX-7402 Battery , Fukuda HHR-13F8G1 Battery , Fukuda HHR-19AL24G1FD Battery , Fukuda LS1506 Battery , Fukuda LS1610 Battery level.
I liked the fact that when you touch the Connection Details icon, you can immediately see a lot of information that will help you use the device. These bits include the name of the Wi-Fi network the MiFi creates (so you can recognize it in the network options of the device you’re trying to connect), the Wi-Fi password you’ll need to connect, the type of security you’re running, and the maximum number of devices you can connect (10).
You’ll also find the URL for a page where you can drill down and tweak a lot of the finer settings of the device, along with the password you’ll need to access the page.
Touch the Setting icon and you can mess with other settings like the screen time-out time and brightness, airplane mode on/off, roaming on/off, sound alerts and others.
There’s a slot for a 32GB microSD card slot on the front of the device. The content on that card (sold separately) can be accessed by any device connected to the hotspot. AT&T and MiFi suggest using it to store entertainment stuff like movies, music and photos. Connected devices access that content using a Web browser or via DLNA (a wireless standard allowing devices to share media).
I found the experience of using the MiFi as a media server to be a little clunky, and far from plug and play. A mobile hotspot just does not seem like an ideal media server device because of its limited capacity and limited user interface for file management. Moreover, most modern smartphones and tablets offer as much or more memory, so why not just store your media on those? I suppose that if you have large movie files that you absolutely must play back simultaneously on multiple devices, storing them on the MiFi might work.
But for the most part, this function seems like a solution in search of a problem, and not something you'd come to rely on in everyday usage.
The hotspot is GPS enabled so that location information can be shared by connected devices that don’t have their GPS capability. OK.
The device can also receive text messages, but, again, why would you want to receive those on your MiFi when you can just receive them on your phone? I suspect that capability is there mainly so that AT&T can send you messages about your data usage and other billing issues.