iPad 4.2b2 tethering preferences by Paul Grave on Twitter
If you install the latest iOS 4.2 beta 2 on your iPad 3G and visit the ?Cellular Data? section of the settings app, then you may be in for a rather nice surprise. Right there, underneath the familiar APN settings is a new option: to tether the iPad?s internet connection.
Both of the screenshots here come from the UK, one on the T-Mobile network and the other on 3. A complete lack of reports of this option in the US indicates that tethering on the iPad will follow tethering on the iPhone, and be available only in select markets where the carriers approve. This is far from the first time that an iOS beta has switched on tethering, and it may disappear later.
Why would you want to do this? After all, sharing the data connection from your iPhone to you iPad would seem more sensible, right? I can think of several uses: Sharing a connection with friends (I actually needed this when I was reading in a bar, and the Lady was working on her MacBook with no internet connection). Or perhaps letting you update an iPod Touch?s email and Instapaper before heading out and leaving your iPad in the hotel.
The most useful, though, would not be the sharing of 3G data itself. If tethering lets you set up an ad-hoc network with the iPad, then you could beam photos to it from a Wi-Fi camera in the field. Then my waste-of-money Eye-Fi card might finally become useful.
iPad 4.2b2 tethering preferences [Paul Grave / Twitter]
Internet Tethering coming to iPad? [9to5 Mac]
See Also:
- AT&T Internet Tethering Comes to iPhone OS4 Beta
- AT&T Adds iPhone Tethering, Kills Unlimited Data for iPad ?
- Pictures: iPhone 3.0 USB Tethering Already Activated
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