Can you activate wifi when the phone is in airplane mode or turn off the cell radio? Wanting to use it as a tablet.
1854764
Yes you can easily do that on this phone as well as any other android device
1953013
This is a tablet not a phone so it doesn't have the cellular frequencies. It does have WI-FI.
1331045
Yes it can connect to wifi, and all the data (background, roaming, and general) can be turned on and off individually.
471978
It's actually very easy to turn off - there's a menu on the player where you can disable it. In all actuality the wifi functions are a gimmick and I don't think anyone really uses them anyways.
1195333
your phone will automatically connect and use wifi first before using your data. all smartphones are designed to do that. you can also go into your settings and select data usage and turn your data on and off so that it only uses your data plan data when you want it to. That way you only use wifi if you can connect to it and you dont accidentally use your data unknowingly. good luck we have enjoyed our phone so far
221297
The radio only connects using wifi only. If you don't have wifi it won't work.
83359
does not use cell service uses bluetooth and wifi to connect to your cell phone
1534524
Good Morning Jon, We purchased the tablet to be used as a kiosk at our counter. I do believe that you can use the tablet on Verizon's network as well as your local WiFi. I would call you local Verizon store to be sure though. Great tablet, works great for what we need.
1353171
It didn't work well, until I took it to AT&T; and got a sim card. It is a phone as well as a tablet. You can go on internet with it or use WIFI. I had to convince them it was a phone too They tried to set it up as a tablet and it didn't work. . Finally, one guy knew it was a phone and he set it upas a phone and it works fine. I have the go phone program which is without contract.
1541429
As a WiFi phone yes. I don't have the tablet setup on a mobile network. I currently use this on my nettalk duo account
930706
yeah. the wifi will work on mine and it's not active any longer. the only thing is I can't place calls or use 3g anymore. other than that its the same as it ever was. if the phone didn't have issues I would still be using it for internet.
2265556
No. This device uses WiMax on a high frequency band that will not work properly on a plane.
547555
Not this one. For it to act as a cell phone, you will need to buy the cellular version. This one is wifi only.
2269376
Sure can! I bought this phone for my son and it's certainly works as a tablet with wifi even without phone service :)
2043361
Yes you can. Although I tired the wireless set-up, it is easy to use this as a modem only. Simply enter enter the modem, and there are admin features including turning off the wifi output. I have never had an issue doing this and I have a separate router for wifi.
2145571
Sure. You can use with a non data plan and use the phone to browse when you are connected to wifi.
1079879
AT&T only charges a penny a kilobyte, so it is not as though you will rack up a huge charge for data if you accidentally log onto the AT&T data network. The E71 doesn't offer a clear menu option to let you "turn off cellular data." However, you can define Access Points. The AT&T network is automatically listed there and I suppose you can delete it so you wouldn't log on by accident. But you can set the phone to "always ask" before logging on. That gives you the chance to pick the WiFi WLAN you want to use. I prefer this route since there are occasions when I am not around a WiFi and may want to use the AT&T network.