One of the things that more we wanted to know all the iPhone users, is if to have an iPad forces us to have another employed flat rate, when we already have the flat rate of the iPhone … to many, they will not feel like paying two flat rates for two different devices, if they can avoiding it; That's why the idea that occurred to all is if we might connect the iPhone to the iPad with a cable or route wifi and have Internet in the iPad thanks to the iPhone … that is to say, do tethering but with the iPad instead of a computer.
Well, he has been proper Steve Jobs in person the one that has clarified the things … the answer, the fact is that it is going to be that not; it will not be possible to use the iPhone to gain access to Internet with the iPad (at least, in a 'official' way, without jailbreaks of for way).
Nevertheless, it is important to remember that applications exist in the world of the jailbreak of the iPhone as MyWi, that they allow to create a local network Wifi ad-hoc to that to get connected and that has bulging Internet. This, it will be possible to do with the iPad without problems (since the only thing that he needs is to have Wifi and that forms automatically route DHCP, something that the iPad can do without problems like portable any other or machine that has the possibility of getting connected to a point of access Wifi) … so if you have the jailbreak done in your iPhone, also you will be able to tune in to Internet from any place although your iPad does not have 3G (it will use that of the iPhone). The negative point of this, is that the iPhone will remain without battery before you realize, since to use the network 3G and wifi consumes a lot of energy, and also it produces a significant warming of the terminal (probably, it is not very healthy to do this during a long period of time). In any case, the news is that the iPad will not be prepared by an official system of tethering that allows him to use the tariff of another mobile (iPhone or of another mark) … the reason, obviously he does not say it, but it is clear: To leave contentments to the operators of mobile telephony, who are undoubtedly the most voracious companies that exist: Simply, they want everything … the market of the telecommunications, that of the contents also … that of the publicity online … in the next months we will see as posicionan to recover the area lost with the unexpected arrival of App Store.
In the last days, some of them had found advanced network functions in the preferences of the iPad that were indicating that technically the device can do tethering with an iPhone, but the definitive answer to all this, it has been obtained by a Swedish fan who, sending an email to Jobs, has asked him for email if it will be able to do tethering with his iPhone. This has been the Jobs answer:
No.
Sent from my iPhone
As always, to the grain and direct like nobody more it it can be
Route: Engadget.