iPhone 5s Hot Spot/Calls

[olds]

Can you make calls while using the 5s as a hot spot? On Verizon.

 

[ImDonly1]

iPhone on Verizon ... no
Androids ... certain ones yes.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6295/...ous-voice-and-lte-or-evdo-svlte-svdo-support-

iPhone 5 article but same thing applies to the 5s I believe.

 

[bearxor]

Yes, I think we're going to have to wait for VoLTE to do Voice/Data on Verizon/Sprint for the iPhone. I don't see Apple rearranging it's antenna system to support this feature.

 

[olds]

I tried it on my S4 and I was able to stream Netflix, make a call and download a driver update.
My employer is going from Blackberry to (mostly) iPhones. Neither can hot spot and make/take calls at the same time. I personally have an air card at work but they want to take them because they count a a "cell phone line".

 

[bearxor]

I tried it on my S4 and I was able to stream Netflix, make a call and download a driver update.
My employer is going from Blackberry to (mostly) iPhones. Neither can hot spot and make/take calls at the same time. I personally have an air card at work but they want to take them because they count a a "cell phone line".

Yep. We have the same issue at work. But we just tell the users to deal with it. It's a very conscious choice by Apple not to allow this. Mainly be leaving out a third cellular antenna that could be used to maintain a data connection during a voice call. Sucks, but them's the breaks right now. Maybe the next iPhone release will have VoLTE support for when VZW launches it's VoLTE network. If the iPhone doesn't have to step down to CDMA to make the phone call, then the data connection should be maintained.

Of course, you could just tell them to switch to AT&T. Works fine there

 

[Ravynmagi]

We use Verizon for all of our employees. Which means that I've had to hand out a lot of mifis to those that have complained about this issue and provide a reasonable business justification for need voice/data (pretty much everyone in sales). But it also means Verizons already high rates are even more expensive with all the mifis we have as well.

We just recently tried out AT&T with some of our non-traveling employees. It's nothing short of a disaster. Complaints about lesser quality of service, coverage, dropped calls, and such. AT&T's business support is shockingly incompetent (something Verizon really shined at). And our AT&T sales rep is the Prince of Darkness, evil and nothing but lies come out of his mouth.

Already had to convert some of the people we just switched to AT&T back to Verizon. We won't be going any further with AT&T as a business.

 

[bearxor]

Yeah. I was just kidding. Honestly, Verizon has the business side down.