Phlier wrote:
Less battery drain on the iPhone, most likely.
I use both bluetooth and wifi to use my iphone as a hotspot, and the wifi option drains the battery very quickly.
My Xperia Z Ultra in the CP-12 battery cover is 3000+3000mah so I don't have a problem with running out of power. But, before that I used an independent Wifi hotspot, as 2 batteries are better than one small one in the phone - and I never want to run out of power on my phone.
So I never felt the need to try BT AP. I set up my Xperia Z Ultra up on BT Hotspot, and it was quick and easy to connect using the G750JH, here is how to do it:
0) Turned off Wifi hotspot, and turned on BT hotspot on my Xperia Ultra Z
1) Get the charms bar, select Settings => PC Settings.
2) Go to Network, enable BT and disable Airport.
3) Go to PC qnd Devices => Bluetooth
4) Found my Xperia Ultra Z => Paired - confirmed the ID on phone and G750
5) Bluetooth icon in the Systray , selected Join a Personal Area Network
6) Selected the Xperia Ultra Z icon and clicked the drop down from the action bar below the menubar and selected Connect Using => Access Point and connected
🙂The bad news is, where I am right now has a really weak LTE signal, and even on Wifi AP I am only getting 8.37 mbps Down and 2.72 mbps Up, and on BT AP it is even slower => 1.0mbps Down and .77mbps Up
You may be getting better battery usage as a BT AP, but you are giving up a lot of speed, even with a weak LTE connection.
Try a speedtest.net test on both BT and Wifi AP, and report back, maybe it will be faster on your iphone
🙂
