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Hi! I’m wondering if I can tether the 3G on my iPhone to my iPad, so I don’t have to pay AT&T yet another $29/month for the iPad? That way, I can velcro my iPhone to the back of my iPad, and I’ll be all set. I just need to get a new pair of cargo pants so I can carry it around.
Wait a week or two for the third party boys to have all America carrying some type of purse. In two years most men will wonder how they ever got along without one. They just have to make it look masculine enough. The change in attitudes will come because men are going to have to have this thing. You may be able to plug your iPhone into it and existing G3 service or certainly hacks to do it. In six months I expect to see the phone built into the pad, as soon as Apple cuts a deal with a G3 or G4 service provider.
Yes, you can! IF you are jailbroken you can download an application called MyWi. This tethers your 3G connection to a Wi-Fi network created on your iPhone, which you can connect to from your iPad! This is what I’ll be doing for data on mine.
No one will know yet, it’s not shipping yet, so things may change. You’ll just have to wait and see.
All the 3G iPads come unlocked so while AT&T are Apple’s preferred carrier, there’s nothing to stop you finding a better contract or even a Pay as you Go SIM.
since we’re all just speculating here, I’ll add my educated guess :) the original question was about tethering an iPhone to an iPad - note that the iPad runs iPhone OS (now, v3.2), NOT Mac OS X. so what you’re asking is if you can tether two iPhone OS devices together. this is not supported in the current iPhone OS, i.e. you can’t currently tether an iPhone to another iPhone it would not be a simple matter of plugging them in together (no such 30pin to 30pin dock cable exists anyhow) although you could argue there’s still Bluetooth possibility. but either way it would need to be supported in iPhone OS that the iPad can receive its internet connection via a 2nd tethered iPhone OS device. I’m guessing it won’t be supported as such.
The only way to tether an iPhone is if you jailbreak it (at least on At&t) then you run into the issue of connecting it to the iPad, which would be done over bluetooth, or a custom 30-Pin to 30-Pin dock cable. This would also require a jailbroken iPad (which doesn’t even exist yet) so the dev teams can’t even start since you can’t get an iPad, then you would need an app in the iPad to receive the signal from the iPhone, and use it for internet. Overall, it would be a pain to set up, but theoretically might be possible in the future once iPad jailbreak is possible (yet apple has taken all possible measures to prevent this) and someone has taken the time do develop an application to do this.
Tetehering between iPhone 3G/S/ and Ipad is possible, you must have JB iPhone and install app MYWI, thats all., your iPhone turns in a wifi AP /data form 3G network/ and You can connect with Your Ipad over WIFI.
This is some fairly old news, but in case you missed it the answer (straight from Steve himself) is a definitive no.
Just as a reminder, the 3G radio in the iPad only works with AT&T’s network in the US. T-Mobile SIMs can be trimmed and used for data, but you will only get (very slow) EDGE-network speeds.
here is tutorial on how to teather http://www.theiPhonenerd.com/index.php?o…
New Answer It is now possible! and here’s the guide
sure,apple will prevent it , but att will allow it after it loses its iPhone exclusivity to others providers dont worry
If your Ipad is a 3g version , just pop in the micro-sim with sim card adapter into your Ipad . Won’t be able to receive calls though , BUT seen an app which now allows the Ipad to receive , you talk thru a bluetooth earpiece
If you have a dongle you could just use the Go Baby Mobile 3G Dongle MiFi to create a WiFi hotspot. https://www.gobabymobile.com/
