Buried inside most smartphones is a capability that few people take advantage of but that I have come to rely on more and more: the ability to turn the phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot.Using my phone as a hotspot (also known as Wi-Fi tethering) means that whenever I have a couple of bars of signal strength, I can get my tablet or laptop online — and share my internet connection with work colleagues.
It my way to stay on top of work wherever I am, allowing me to read and send emails, move data back and forth with the company servers and even get a taste of the latest office gossip from the comfort of a full-sized device.A phone hotspot can be a serious collaboration tool for a group of business people attempting to work together.
The potential ranges from a group on the way to the airport in a van finishing a group presentation to an accounting team working in a conference room with an internet connection independent of the company they&re auditing.