New mobile hotspot gadget from Vodafone

Vodafone is delighted to present its R201 mobile hotspot. 

The gadget first emerged last week.

The R201 shares a tri-band 3G connection - 7.2Mb/s HSDPA, 5.8Mb/s HSUPA - between five devices that link up to it over Wi-Fi. It has a Micro SDHC card slot that can likewise be shared among clients, by DLNA and SMB file-sharing.

Pay-monthly deals come in at £15, £20 and £25 a month, all for 18 months with, respectively, 3, 4 and 5GB of data bundled.

The R201 device is free on the priciest package, £29 on the £20-a-month plan and £49 on the cheapest deal.

However, R201 doesn’t have pay-as-you-go option.