Pogue S Review At T Hotspot Ios 4 3 On Feb 13Th

The NYTimes’ David Pogue did a nice review of the Verizon iPhone replete with all of the typical observations: Doesn’t drop calls, can’t talk/data at same time, etc.

Here’s where it gets mildly interesting.  The initial review had the following passage (we recieved like 5 different tips with the info below cut/paste –thanks tipsters!):

Feb 13th is a Sunday so that seems like a weird date but very strange that Pogue popped that in there, so specifically.  But it is also the date that AT&T is upping bandwidth and doling out hotspots on Android devices.

A few minutes later that was changed to “Soon”.  If AT&T gets hotspot, it will be on iOS 4.3 which means that that update is coming as well.

Computerworld also has a post titled AT&T to offer Wi-Fi tethering for iPhone but in the article AT&T says “We are working on bringing it to the iPhone, [But we have] nothing else to share at this time.”