14 DAY TRIAL // Wireless carrier O2 Germany has recently announced via Twitter that the Palm's Mobile Hotspot application was set to soon become available for the users of a webOS handset on its network. The software solution was released not too long ago in the US for the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus on Verizon Wireless' network, and should soon become available for download in Germany too, from Palm's AppCatalog.
No specific release date for the application was provided at the moment, yet it seems that the Palm Mobile Hotspot App will become available for download for free for all webOS users. The move is driven by the fact that O2 Germany allows tethering on its airwaves without charging extra fees for the functionality or asking users to commit to a special plan for that. Moreover, the wireless carrier already has Bluetooth tethering enabled on its Palm Pre, even if the feature is not available for O2 customers in the UK and Ireland too.
What this software solution is all about includes that possibility to simulate a real access point on the Palm Pre. This will enable users to connect devices that need a real access point for that and proves superior to solutions available with other mobile phones. Some devices on the market, such as Novatel MiFi or the Huawei E5/E5830, are specifically meant to create a Wi-Fi access point so as to offer support for additional connections, and Palm's Mobile Hotspot application is set to do exactly that for Palm Pre.
As stated above, O2 Germany hasn't provided an exact release date for the new application, at least not at the moment. However, some suggest that Palm's Mobile Hotspot might land in the Palm's App Catalog as soon as the Sunnyvale-based handset vendor will open the portal for paid apps for Europe (and for other markets around the world too), something that should happen sometime this week.