LTE compatible Chromebook may be available as a mobile hot spot

CHROMEBOOK, which supports LTE for individuals, such as for educational teachings, such as "HP Chromebook X360 13c", has appeared in Japan, which supports LTE compatible.

The advantage is that Chromebook itself can easily connect to LTE, but there is a possibility that Chromebook can be used as a mobile hot spot using this.

Most of the devices that support LTE and 5G on smartphones and tablets are equipped with a mobile hot spot function that also serves not only for their own communication but also for surrounding devices.

Although this function was not limited to the Chrome OS, Chrome Boxed has discovered that there is a change to enable the Chromebook hot spot function.

Although this function is not available yet, it seems that Chromebook, which supports LTE and 5G in the future, will be able to create wireless access points on their own users and devices.

For example, when meeting with multiple people, if there is no Wi-Fi environment and there is only a limited number of LTE-compatible Chromebooks, it is safer to access the network using the Chromebook hot spot function rather than tethering individually.It may be ...

In any case, it is likely to be implemented in the future, so it is likely to wait for a while.

By the way, at the time of writing this article (2021/06/18), LTE -compatible "HP Chromebook X360 13c" is sold at a large special price without a tongue, so if you are interested, please check it out.

Source: Chrome Unboxed