With Mobile HotSpot having now been shown off a few times here on the blogs and in the CrackBerry forums through images, the folks from bjxiaoc have also decided to go ahead and do up a video for us all. It's not much really but it's cool to see it in action and hopefully by now someone else has gotten their hands on the OS to see if the HotSpot feature can be stripped and made available to devices currently running BlackBerry 7. Better yet -- RIM coould just release it, that'd be nice.
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