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iOS 6 ships with WiFi plus cellular feature missing
Back in August, much buzz arose about a new iOS 6 feature. WiFi plus Cellular promised to allow apps having trouble with WiFi to connect using cellular data. This option promised to allow devices to tap into their data plan upon encountering shaky WiFi connections. As Megan Lavey-Heaton wrote this Summer, This scenario can occur you've made a WiFi connection and it turns out to be pretty bad. The connection to the router is solid, but the Internet itself is pretty horrid -- case in point, most hotel rooms I've stayed in the past couple of years. Benjamin cites cases where you're making the transition between a place with WiFi, such as your home or a coffee shop, and places without. There's a middle ground where you're barely hanging onto a WiFi connection. Fast forward to the Autumn, and iOS 6's release. For anyone installing iOS 6, and navigating to Settings > General > Cellular, you would have seen this instead. The options go directly from "Personal Hotspot" to "Use Cellular Data for". Sometime between the final iOS 6 golden master release and the public distro, Apple pulled the plug on WiFi Plus Cellular. We have contacted Apple for comment but do not expect a reply. This is a disappointment for many users, who we think would have welcomed a flexible approach to flaky WiFi connections. If you're a developer who installed the initial GM, you've probably lucked out. The final dev release's Cellular settings screen looks like this.
Screen Grabs: Nokia N96 preserves the evidence on Dexter
Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today's movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com. No this isn't the first Nokia-wielding fictional character or celeb that we've seen in this space, but the N96 recently spotted in the hands of our favorite psychopath has us wondering: would Dexter Morgan try N-Gage? And wouldn't he prefer something with a QWERTY keyboard? Come to think of it, we always thought of him as a BlackBerry guy. Then again, times are tough, and as a new father he has to make... sacrifices.Update: We originally identified this one as the N81. Thanks to all you raving Nokia fanatics who pointed out the error. %Gallery-76127%
