Can an iPad be tethered to a mobile phone?

omro · 05-10-2010, 03:22 PM

Hi,

My nokia e71 can let my notebook tether to it via bluetooth and surf the net via the 3G. Can an iPad be tethered to a non-Apple mobile phone? I know it can't be tethered to an iPhone.

Thanks

Sonist · 05-10-2010, 03:34 PM

Take a look at this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONoHR...=youtube_gdata

Fotoman · 05-10-2010, 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by omro

Hi,

My nokia e71 can let my notebook tether to it via bluetooth and surf the net via the 3G. Can an iPad be tethered to a non-Apple mobile phone? I know it can't be tethered to an iPhone.

Thanks

I know of two ways to share data currently:

1. For those that have an iPhone, they can jailbreak it and buy a $9.99 program called MyWi that turns the Iphone into a mobile wifi hotspot.

2. For those who have any other phone that can do bluetooth tethering there's a $5 app that you can buy for a jailbroken iPad called iBluever that will let the iPad tether through bluetooth.

There is nothing yet that allows using the iPad USB adapter (aka Camera adapter) to tether the old-fashioned way through USB but give it time... someone already figured out a way to hack that USB adapter to access external hard drives.

And all this is in just the first month.

The desire to share data plans with the iPad instead of getting yet another overpriced data plan for its exclusive use, will be pretty well universal and the cell-phone carriers are about to take a huge PR hit on this issue especially when influencial columnists and bloggers star using the iPad... stay tuned for the fireworks

volwrath · 05-10-2010, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fotoman

I know of two ways to share data currently:

1. For those that have an iPhone, they can jailbreak it and buy a $9.99 program called MyWi that turns the Iphone into a mobile wifi hotspot.

Actually many other phones including WinMo and Android can be a mobile wifi router.

scottjl · 05-10-2010, 06:13 PM

there wasn't any hacking involved to get the usb adapter to see/mount an external hard drive. that is already built into the OS.

Fotoman · 05-10-2010, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottjl

there wasn't any hacking involved to get the usb adapter to see/mount an external hard drive. that is already built into the OS.

It looked like a hack to me:

http://time-more.com/ipad

scottjl · 05-10-2010, 06:56 PM

ok for what he was doing, but as I reported last week in my review of the camera kit, the OS sees and mounts your partitions just fine. it is just there are no API calls for developers to get access to the mounted volume yet. I believe that is coming in 4.0 from what I read

Fotoman · 05-10-2010, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottjl

ok for what he was doing, but as I reported last week in my review of the camera kit, the OS sees and mounts your partitions just fine. it is just there are no API calls for developers to get access to the mounted volume yet. I believe that is coming in 4.0 from what I read

Ah... that's very cool and like I said, this is still early days... tethering is/will be very high priority on people's iPad wish list.

It's the only reason I finally jailbroke my iPhone after all this time and a lot of people are citing this app and multitasking as the top 2 reasons for JB'ing... once 4.0 brings multitasking MyWi will be the #1 reason by itself.

The irony was that here in Canada USB and bluetooth tethering of iPhones is allowed by both of our largest carriers (Rogers and Telus) and I have been doing this with my old lap-top for more than a year. The inability to carry on doing it with my iPad just seemed artificial and contrived.

scottjl · 05-10-2010, 07:58 PM

yep. in the us tethering is still held back by at&t which doesn't have the network capacity to handle it.

Lotus Esprit · 05-10-2010, 08:10 PM

Hmmm.

There is My Tether for Palm Pre owners. It works well, no BlueTooth required.

nikkie · 05-10-2010, 08:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottjl

yep. in the us tethering is still held back by at&t which doesn't have the network capacity to handle it.

yep. in the us tethering is still held back by at&t which doesn't have the network capacity to handle it wants you to pay for additional service for additional devices.

Fixed that for you.

scottjl · 05-10-2010, 09:02 PM

there was an article out that recently that compared ipad surfing data transfer vs. the iphone. because the ipad has a larger screen it can support larger graphics downloaded. i think they said it was something like 5x the data downloaded on the ipad vs surfing on the iphone. you really think at&t can handle that load? they drop my calls often enough as is. and at&t fails every network capacity test that the trade rags come up with every few months.

yes. i know at&t certainly wants more money out of me (then again which cell carrier doesn't?) but i do not for one minute believe they have the capacity to handle all the extra devices on their network either.

nikkie · 05-10-2010, 09:35 PM

@scottjl I think it depends on the location. I've never had a call dropped, but I've heard those in NYC can't even buy an iPhone.

scottjl · 05-10-2010, 09:47 PM

yeah a few months ago at&t placed some restrictions on new activations in the nyc area. but they have beefed up their network since then. i've traveled coast to coast and i can say at&t does not have equal coverage in every corner of the us and i have had plenty of calls dropped, not gone through, and other issues. i wish i could say i was a happy at&t customer but that would be a lie.

scottjl · 05-11-2010, 12:51 AM

here is the article I had mentioned, my 5x was a little off. the average is about 2.5x

http://bytemobile.com/news-events/20...ve_260410.html

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05-10-2010, 03:22 PM	#1
omro Addict Posts: 373 Karma: 452000 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Hamilton, On Device: Kobo Aura HD	Can an iPad be tethered to a mobile phone? Hi, My nokia e71 can let my notebook tether to it via bluetooth and surf the net via the 3G. Can an iPad be tethered to a non-Apple mobile phone? I know it can't be tethered to an iPhone. Thanks

05-10-2010, 03:34 PM	#2
Sonist Apeist Posts: 2,126 Karma: 381090 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: The sunny part of California Device: Generic virtual reality story-experiential device	Take a look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONoHR...=youtube_gdata

05-10-2010, 06:13 PM	#5
scottjl Reader of Books Posts: 1,632 Karma: 2697 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: none	there wasn't any hacking involved to get the usb adapter to see/mount an external hard drive. that is already built into the OS.

05-10-2010, 06:56 PM	#7
scottjl Reader of Books Posts: 1,632 Karma: 2697 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: none	ok for what he was doing, but as I reported last week in my review of the camera kit, the OS sees and mounts your partitions just fine. it is just there are no API calls for developers to get access to the mounted volume yet. I believe that is coming in 4.0 from what I read

05-10-2010, 07:58 PM	#9
scottjl Reader of Books Posts: 1,632 Karma: 2697 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: none	yep. in the us tethering is still held back by at&t which doesn't have the network capacity to handle it.

05-10-2010, 08:10 PM	#10
Lotus Esprit Addict Posts: 214 Karma: 646 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: iPad	Hmmm. There is My Tether for Palm Pre owners. It works well, no BlueTooth required.

05-10-2010, 09:02 PM	#12
scottjl Reader of Books Posts: 1,632 Karma: 2697 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: none	there was an article out that recently that compared ipad surfing data transfer vs. the iphone. because the ipad has a larger screen it can support larger graphics downloaded. i think they said it was something like 5x the data downloaded on the ipad vs surfing on the iphone. you really think at&t can handle that load? they drop my calls often enough as is. and at&t fails every network capacity test that the trade rags come up with every few months. yes. i know at&t certainly wants more money out of me (then again which cell carrier doesn't?) but i do not for one minute believe they have the capacity to handle all the extra devices on their network either.

05-10-2010, 09:35 PM	#13
nikkie Guru Posts: 614 Karma: 73700 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: WA, USA Device: Android, Kindle Paperwhite, lots of ancient readers	@scottjl I think it depends on the location. I've never had a call dropped, but I've heard those in NYC can't even buy an iPhone.

05-10-2010, 09:47 PM	#14
scottjl Reader of Books Posts: 1,632 Karma: 2697 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: none	yeah a few months ago at&t placed some restrictions on new activations in the nyc area. but they have beefed up their network since then. i've traveled coast to coast and i can say at&t does not have equal coverage in every corner of the us and i have had plenty of calls dropped, not gone through, and other issues. i wish i could say i was a happy at&t customer but that would be a lie.

05-11-2010, 12:51 AM	#15
scottjl Reader of Books Posts: 1,632 Karma: 2697 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: none	here is the article I had mentioned, my 5x was a little off. the average is about 2.5x http://bytemobile.com/news-events/20...ve_260410.html

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