IPhone 4 FaceTime without Wifi

Alternate (that works) is drop your data plan from $25 2 Gbytes to $15 / 250 Megabytes, and go buy a $60/Month Sprint MiFi/5 Gigabytes (Wireless HotSpot).<p>Total Net Cost is $35/month above what the iPhone normally costs. $60 (Sprint) - $10 (Data Plan Savings) - $15 (Tethering Cost)<p>The net costs are less if you have an iPad AND an iPhone, as you don't have to purchase a 3G iPad or a Data plan for it.<p>Advantages:<p><pre><code> o Data Limit is 5 Gigabytes instead of 2. o iPhone, iPad, Laptops all can (simultaneously) use it. o You now have Sprint and AT&#38;T Data Coverage. o All of the "WiFi only" rules work on the MiFi (Facetime, AppStore download Limit)</code></pre>

If you have a tethered laptop why not just use the webcam that most laptops have shipped with for years now?

Cool, but I'll just say it. Impractical.

The ironic thing is that you could also use FaceTime while walking on the street if you're walking with a friend that has an Android phone with the ability to make his phone a WiFi hot spot.

A while back I had to do something similar to download a podcast. The iPhone doesn't let you download apps or iTunes media (including podcasts) that are over 10MB in size over the cellular network. So I tethered to my MacBook, downloaded in iTunes, and synced the podcast back to the device.

So it's.... how to use facetime without wifi by creating a wifi hotspot with your laptop? How is that not using wifi?

Apple products sure are easy to use.

If Apple opened up the protocol tomorrow, there'd be a better (3G) implementation on Android fairly sson.