Karma sold these devices on pre-order for $99, though it said it planned to eventually retail them for $149 (which it did beginning in April). It offers up to 220 hours of battery life in standby mode, or five hours during use with upload speeds of 2-3 Mb/s and download speeds of 6-8 Mb/s on the 4G LTE connection. The device is still quite small so it can easily fit in a purse, pocket or bag, at 2.9″ x 2.9″ x 0.47″. Some of Karma’s older devices ran on Clearwire’s data network (aka Sprint’s 4G WiMAX network), but, this past fall, the company announced a new, LTE-powered Wi-Fi hotspot that runs on Sprint’s Nationwide 4G LTE network, with fallback to 3G CDMA. Originally, the concept was to offer consumers a small, portable Wi-Fi hotspot that could be used whenever you needed connectivity. Karma has been around for a few years now and was backed by $3.6 million in outside funding, according to CrunchBase. The company says that some of its earliest customers began receiving their hotspots as of Monday, while remaining customers will see theirs arrive within 45 days.Ĭurrently, Karma is shipping out a few hundred devices per day but is planning to scale that up to one thousand or so in the future. Karma, the portable Wi-Fi hotspot offering a contract-free, pay-as-you-go service and the ability to earn free data by sharing your connection with others, has now started shipping its latest devices to pre-order customers.
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