New beta iphone tethering, get ready ipad

[Hammie]

What is the bluetooth limitation for tethering?

I ask because I connect my iPhone and iPad together over bluetooth often for my Camera-A and Camera-B apps.

 

[sapporobaby]

Problem solved.

www.joikuspot.com

Nokia phone + Joikuspot = freedom and not tethering BS.

 

[prvt.donut]

Seconded, it's kind a PITA to enable tethering, then get to work, then turn if off when it's not being used.

Unless you use BossPref.

I can swipe the info bar at the top of the screen and turn on and off tethering in a matter of moments. Apple made a great device, but only jailbreaking and setting up extra features like this make it actually useful for day to day life.

I don't want to spend 2-3 minutes going into settings app, and going through all the menus to reach a switch that I like to turn on and off on a regular basis Apple!

 

[prvt.donut]

What is the bluetooth limitation for tethering?

I ask because I connect my iPhone and iPad together over bluetooth often for my Camera-A and Camera-B apps.

Bluetooth protocol stack. They can choose which features it has enabled. I am sure it will be added via hack soon enough though.

 

[TraceyS/FL]

The official iPhone OS4 isn't out yet, so nobody knows for sure what will and will not work. Granted the iPad won't get the OS update until later. Agree that he should just stick with what he's got until real products are released, and he can get actual information, including pricing.

The world is not AT&T and the US.

Tethering has been available in other places for awhile, and you don't hear anyone tethering their iPad to their iPhone on an official path. All with jailbreaking. Might that change in 4? Possibly, but there is precedent with the way it works now, so you can assume AT&T will work like it does in other places.

 

[Macdicted]

Two words .... Sprint Evo !

Screw the new iPhone , it's been surpassed by leaps and bounds.

 

[qtx43]

The world is not AT&T and the US.

Tethering has been available in other places for awhile, and you don't hear anyone tethering their iPad to their iPhone on an official path. All with jailbreaking. Might that change in 4? Possibly, but there is precedent with the way it works now, so you can assume AT&T will work like it does in other places.

I don't think precedent has anything to do with it. There is no technical limitation here, it's just a policy/business decision. As you say, Europe and America are very different markets. It is perhaps a feature they didn't get into the first version iPad, but iPad will be getting iPhone OS4, and likely will have the capability built in. Whether Apple exposes this capability and AT&T supports it is just a business decision. They probably haven't even decided yet themselves. If AT&T is still interested in limiting network usage more than they're wanting to keep customers and Apple happy, then your position may be more likely.

 

[DeathChill]

Allowing tethering between the iPhone and iPad would defeat the purpose of a 3G iPad, so I doubt it will ever officially exist with the way the iPad lineup sits currently.