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Connect to Internet using your cell phone

Franknewbridge

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Does anyone know if there is a way to use your cellphone to connect your ipad to the Internet? Seems to me I saw a post early on before the 3G models came out...
 

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Depends what phone you have. If you have a phone that is rootable or supports tethering natively, then yes.

My Motorola Droid is rooted (the equivalent of jailbreaking), and I have a WiFi tether app that uses the incoming 3G data connection to turn the phone into a WiFi hotspot that I can connect through (tether) with my iPad.

There are plenty of phones that can do this, which do you have?

To name a couple:

- iPhone
- Moto Droid
- Palm Pre

And a ton more. Almost every Android phone can do it if it's rooted. Still waiting on the HTC Droid Incredible to be rooted so I can pick that phone up.
 

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Depends what phone you have. If you have a phone that is rootable or supports tethering natively, then yes.

My Motorola Droid is rooted (the equivalent of jailbreaking), and I have a WiFi tether app that uses the incoming 3G data connection to turn the phone into a WiFi hotspot that I can connect through (tether) with my iPad.

There are plenty of phones that can do this, which do you have?

To name a couple:

- iPhone
- Moto Droid
- Palm Pre

And a ton more. Almost every Android phone can do it if it's rooted. Still waiting on the HTC Droid Incredible to be rooted so I can pick that phone up.


Nexus One with Froyo has hotspot feature already and no root needed.
 

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Yep, depends on the phone.
Does the phone have built in wifi? Thats whats needed.
Some phones(iphone) can do this but must first be hacked.
 

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