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Internet Tethering on iPad

Posted by on Sep 30, 2010 | 10 Comments

Although Steve Jobs said that internet tethering wouldn’t be coming to the iPad. The beta 2 of iOS 4.2 for iPad shows us differently. Hidden within the APN network settings on the iPad 3G  is a new section dedicated to internet tethering. This tethering appears to be the type of tethering iPhones currently use.

The new section asks for the usual username and password to setup internet tethering, which is similar to what the iPhone had before tethering got an official iOS interface. Internet tethering is in the iPad’s future and may even launch with iOS 4.2 in November.

Reports have come in though that this pane looks to only be available on 3′s network in Europe and could not be spotted anywhere on a US model.

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  • http://twitter.com/GavinRoskamp Gavin Roskamp

    I think using the multitasking bar for notifications would be very space-efficient and easy to implement. Then just double click the home button and you can see all your notifications like the running app list.

  • Anonymous

    Notifications work great as they are. I hope they don’t mess things up. Notifications that don’t force you to deal with them aren’t proper reminders.

    “Notifications need to be available when you want them, but not obtrusive and disruptive.”

    Off course they should be obtrusive. If a reminder doesn’t force you to look at it you’ll never be reminded.

    • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

      Are you kidding?! Notifications are (currently) outdated on iOS. Great when you had a couple of apps, but beyond useless if you’re a power user / power communicator.

      • http://twitter.com/killa_k301 Karan Varindani

        I agree. Between at least 50 apps ready to push notifications to my system, including SMS, Twitter Mentions & Direct Messages and Facebook Wall Posts, Tags, etc, the iOS notifications system can get annoying in a hurry.

    • Anonymous

      Yeah the notifications are fine if you are getting a few texts from your buddies. But when you are getting hundreds of texts a day, emails upon emails, twitter notifications, facebook notifications, rss feeds, missed calls, favorite blog notifications, foursquare notifications, app store updates, calendar events, weather updates, etc the current notifier is complete garbage.

  • Anonymous

    I like the MobileNotifier notifications. Anyone else?

  • http://twitter.com/dylact cray

    my guess: a homescreen left to the spotlight-search-screen where all notifications are listed

  • http://twitter.com/P3ngu1n0 P3ngu1n0

    Apple will (in the end) come up with the most intuituve design. Also, did anyone notice the time in the first photo? Easter Egg, much?