@MissionMan wait what? so many holes in your post... first off how can it be an annoyance to press 1 button on your phone to tether to your SP3? secondly why would you wanna pay 2 lte data? unless your the guy who likes to throw away your money? thirdly what usb device are you referring to that you need to tether a phone? if you talking about random peripheral devices, then that doesn't apply to what we are discussing... fourthly you don't like connecting stuff via USB, nor do you like connecting wirelessly, then why do you have any gadgets (or a SP3) for that matter? seems like you need to stick with an abacus or something less complicated... and no one here has any problems helping people with problems, what we have problems with is people telling us they don't like this or that for silly stupid reasons and then say apple is better because (insert reason here) or say what a pain it is to tether a phone to the SP3 which takes 1 button press and less than 30 seconds to connect and be online... that's what bothers us... its pretty obvious you have problems connecting stuff via USB and wirelessly for reasons you've stated uptop and I find those reasons ludicrous... but that's just ME so why do you even have a SP3 in the first place? because as I remember you still have to connect EVERYTHING to the ipad via BT anyways. lastly why blame MS for plugging your phone into the usb power supply to charge your phone? maybe its the fault of your phone for making the power cable so short no? but ya know what? every company I find never makes the power cable long enough but that's MS's fault...right? lol