Same as it ever was: you can’t tether an iPhone to the iPad
This isn’t so much news as it is frequently a community service announcement: even in market segments where i phone tethering has launched, you’ve never been in a position to use it to connect to an iPad, and you won’t be in a position to when AT&T flips the switch on tethering with the release of OS 4. That’s obviously not AT&T’s fault, it is really Apple’s — the i phone inexplicably facilitates only USB and wireless bluetooth for sharing its internet connection, though jailbroken apps like MyWi prove that a WiFi connection is completely doable and countless other handsets already support WiFi routing. And iPad isn’t going to support using another equipment becoming a wireless bluetooth modem, either. therefore long as you are paying the tethering fee, there’s no reason AT&T wouldn’t want you tethering the iPad; you will certainly be in a position to consider action with any phone in AT&T’s lineup that can create a WiFi hotspot, after all, and we’re good they’d be content to acquire your overage money when you as a last point in time hit 2GB no matter what the equipment you are using to gobble the data. In the meantime, you know very well what it really is rather easy to tether to an iPad? A phone running Froyo , for one — Google was certainly content to show away that ability back at IO .
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Same as it at any time was: you can’t tether an i phone to the iPad
