If you were agonising between buying a Wi-Fi or 3G iPad 2 because of GPS, this might make the decision easier: it gains the same GPS functionality when tethered to an iPhone.
iOS 4.3 not only brought WiFi tethering to Apple devices, but it also brought the spotlight onto the carriers offering tethering services. In particular, the fact that Vodafone’s Infinite plans don’t include tethering in the bundled data.
The personal hotspot feature in iOS 4.3 lets you tether only three things over Wi-Fi. If you want to go up to the advertised five devices, you’ll have to use Bluetooth and USB and pretty much quintuple-team your iPhone in a way that’s rather unseemly. [Engadget]
BGR just got the official word from Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 won’t support tethering. Earlier in the week WP7 director Brandon Watson had suggested that the decision might be up to carriers, but now it’s confirmed that WP7, at least right out of the gate, won’t be nice and share its signal. [BGR]
Oh, Nick Lee, you clever clever man. You see, Nick here tricked Apple with a very simple iPhone application: Handy Light. On the surface it looked like any other $1.19 torch application. But, secretly, it was a lot more useful.
What’s going on, AT&T? You give us tethering options on our iPhones, but make us give up unlimited data plans in return. Now you’re saying we can’t tether our iPads to our iPhones even if we jump through that hoop?
