h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

it was our company christmas party on Friday. In the past they have given us all a gift certificate for a department store, but a few (a fair few, if I think about it) years ago they switched to buying raffle prizes and putting each of our names into a hat. That way about 15 of us got a prize, everyone else got a bottle of wine or something.

The last few years I haven't been to the party because they have had a singing competition and I'm really not into that kind of thing.

Anyway, they stopped it for this year, and as one of my colleagues' daughters decided that she definitely wanted to meet up with my daughter again, so and I took Gruesome Number 1 to the party.

This year there were 3 categories of prizes: the first were 5 Nespresso machines (I wouldn't have minded one of those. The second were 5 LG G-pags. I won one of those, an 8.3" tablet. The other prizes were a 42", a 47" and a 55" TV. The guy who got the big one is very popular and the applause was brilliant.

So - now I have a tablet which is hopefully going to make catching up on my studies on the train a lot easier (it's been difficult reading my course books on my old-school b/w Kindle in pdf format).

So what I was wondering is this: Is there some way to harness the mobile internet capabilities of my smartphone and use my new pad as a proper internet-enabled mobile device?

well done! I don't have a clue how to answer your question, but very well done on your fabulous prize! Can I rub shoulders with you?

*rubs shoulders with Sho*

Congratulations!

I think it is possible to set up your phone as a hub for wireless internet and connect your tablet with it. just don't ask me how exactly it works.

Yeah really easy if your phone is android.

Go to >-
System Setterings > Wireless and Networks > Tethering and portable hotspot

Enable hotspot and give your phone a network name and password and viola. Mobile WiFi for your tablet.

Bear in mind that this both rinses your battery on phone and uses lots of data.

FB

Congratulations

thanks FB
I may try it if I get desperate - one more question oh guru, do I have to have Bluetooth running to make that work, or does it just search?

I want to call my new toy Sho's G-spot but got grumpy at it being there for all to see

Would he prefer if you called it a hotpot ?

Pot-au-feu?