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Though it was kind of implied during the iPad 2 event yesterday when we learned that the GSM (that is, non-Verizon) version of the iPhone 4 would be getting iOS 4.3 with mobile hotspot capability on March 11th, we’ve doubly confirmed with AT&T today that the carrier will be offering the feature right out of the gate — a departure from the tethering delay of days gone by. Naturally, you’ll need the tethering feature added to your account, a $20 surcharge over the standard 2GB DataPro plan for a grand total of $45 with a 4GB bucket. Makes the extra coin a little easier to swallow over cabled and Bluetooth tethering alone, we suppose.

AT&T to offer mobile hotspot on iPhone 4 starting March 11th, requires usual $45 data plan originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AirPrint is great in theory, but in practice your chances of finding a supported printer in the copier room are roughly equivalent to spotting a yellow-eared parrot in the wild. TruPrint boosts those chances dramatically, adding iOS support for “most” printers that are shared on the network. Unfortunately no actual listing of supported models has been provided, but there’s a three day free trial if installed over Cydia so you can try it for yourself — yes, you’ll need to jailbreak first. After that it’s $9.99, which is a bit steep, but if it saves you having to wait in just one line at the airport terminal to print a boarding pass it’s well, well worth it.

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TruPrint brings proper printer support to iOS if you brought the jailbreak (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Along with the iPad 2, Apple’s releasing the final version of iOS 4.3, which features the Nitro Javscript engine from Safari on OS X, new iTunes Home Sharing features that let you play content from desktop iTunes over WiFi, and the updated suite of AirPlay features from the betas — including the ability for App Store apps to share audio and video. Apple’s also finalizing the new option that lets you assign the side switch to either rotation lock or mute, and it’s adding Personal Hotspot support. There’s also those rumored iOS versions of Photo Booth and FaceTime for the new cameras. It’ll be a free download for all iPads, the GSM iPhone 4, the iPhone 3GS and the third- and fourth-gen iPod touch when it’s released on March 11. When will it hit the Verizon iPhone 4? We don’t know yet.

Apple iOS 4.3 coming March 11 with iPad 2, includes new AirPlay features and FaceTime originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This collection of devices — from Germany’s SKS Hinkel, and winner of an iF Product Design Award this year — is really a video intercom system. But if you use your imagination, from left to right, it looks like an iPod shuffle, an iPod classic, an iPhone shuffle, and an iPhone classic all developed in some awesome alternate dimension where coiled phone cords are still cool.

Admit it: you miss the click wheel.

Visualized: if the iPhone had happened in an alternate reality originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Everything about the Piolo iPhone stand is minimal — including the price

If you liked the minimal MoviePeg iPhone stand, you’re going to love the Piolo, which offers more — or really less — of the same. Hell, even its name is shorter.

Where the MoviePeg was a chunky, rubbery clip-on stand with a satisfying heft, the Piolo is a thin strip of TPE (thermoplastic elastomer) with a notch cut to hold the iPhone. It works in both horizontal and vertical configurations and props up the handset by working as a tiny kickstand.

Wired.com’s very own NYC Bureau Chief Mr. John C. Abell had the MoviePeg for his iPhone 3GS and regarded it as good. The Piolo seems to be the same, only even more pocket friendly, and even has a hole to hook it onto a keychain.

But the very best thing about the Piolo, designed and made in the gruffly charming city of sheffield in England, is its price. The designer, Andrew Bond, has even applied his minimalist creed to the cost, and the Piolo sells for just £4, or $6.50, plus flat rate shipping for just £1.85 ($3). What’s not to like? And how can you not like a man whose bio includes the following: “I like a good cup of tea, bacon sandwiches, sleep, photography, films.”?

Piolo iPhone stand [Piolo. Thanks, Andy!]

See Also:

• Simplest and Best? The MoviePeg iPhone Stand
• Hands-On With the MoviePeg for iPad
• Tiny, Gravity-Defying PadFoot Stand Seems Impossible
• The Glif iPhone 4 Tripod Mount Does Much Much More