Netgear’s $499.99 5G hotspot lets you swap eSIMs at will

Netgear announced its latest mobile hotspot today, the Nighthawk 5G M7, which volition beryllium disposable successful January, on with a caller mobile app and an eSIM marketplace wherever you tin acquisition section SIM cards for much than 140 countries. The M7 comes unlocked for $499.99, making it a much affordable alternate to the unlocked mentation of Netgear’s premium M6 Pro hotspot. 

The M7 features Wi-Fi 7 with speeds of up to 3.6Gbps and enactment for up to 32 connected devices, which you tin besides link wired via USB-C oregon with an ethernet adapter. It besides includes a firewall, WPA3 encryption, and automatic firmware updates, on with Netgear’s Advanced Router Protection, which helps observe and artifact attacks connected your router and allows for unrecorded information patches. Additionally, you person the enactment to usage either carnal SIM cards oregon eSIMs. 

The M7 offers up to 10 hours of continuous connectivity per complaint and tin besides relation arsenic a powerfulness bank. That’s a fewer hours little artillery beingness than the advertised 13 hours you get with the M7 Pro, but it should beryllium capable to tide you implicit successful a pinch until you find an outlet. 

The eSIM marketplace is the biggest upgrade implicit erstwhile Netgear hotspots. From the Netgear app, you tin view, buy, and activate section information plans for the M7 — a diagnostic that could travel successful useful for anyone who often travels internationally. Data plans successful the marketplace volition scope from 3GB to 20GB, and you’ll beryllium capable to presumption real-time usage from the app.