Verizon now sells two 4G LTE mobile hotspots--one a Samsung and the other a Novatel MiFi--at the same price. We wanted to know which one has the better battery, the faster speeds, and the better ease of use.
PCMag.Com - Mobile hotspots like Novatel’s popular MiFi 2200 have been greeted warmly by tech users and have sold well. They simplify things by providing our various devices with Internet connectivity under one data service bill. And it's a moveable feast--mobile hotspots are superportable.But hotspots until now have connected to 3G networks, and so have provided other devices with relatively slow connections to the web. That has now changed. A pair of new mobile hotspots that run on Verizon’s fast new 4G LTE network--Samsung’s 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot and Novatel’s MiFi 4510L--have become available, and they easily live up to Verizon's claim that they are ten times faster than their 3G predecessors.
The two devices and their accompanying Verizon data plans are priced the same at $100 with a two-year contract. For data service, you can buy a 5GB plan for $50 per month or a 10GB plan for $80 per month. Both plans charge $10 for every gigabyte of data you use over your monthly limit.
So which device is the better buy? I break them down feature by feature and pick a winner at the end (feel free to skip down). In a nutshell, I found a number of small differences--and one big one--that might make all the difference when choosing between the two devices. Read More
