UPDATE: Yes, we jumped the gun a little bit and now realize this was a horrible description on AT&T?s part to describe the process of hooking your iPhone up to iTunes. Ironically this email was sent to AT&T employees to try and clear up customer confusion.
This seems to more than support iFan's comment (#10), and for the sake of good journalism, I would hope that AppleInsider would rewrite the article or even delete it entirely.
I don't think it was "a horrible description on AT&T's part." The word usage is quite correct, but technical people with a limited vocabulary or wishful desires apparently use it only one way when it comes to cell phones. I choke that up to faulty comprehensive reading, something we all bungle from time to time.
AT&T actually supports phone tethering, and it works great. On the contractual side you need a data plan plus a tethering agreement. I activated this for a friend using the TILT phone and a Windows laptop. After activating tethering on the phone and connecting the USB cable to the laptop, the computer recognized this as a cable modem connection.
Works great, would be NICE to have it on the iPhone (and MAC) too......
AT&T actually supports phone tethering, and it works great. On the contractual side you need a data plan plus a tethering agreement. I activated this for a friend using the TILT phone and a Windows laptop. After activating tethering on the phone and connecting the USB cable to the laptop, the computer recognized this as a cable modem connection.
Works great, would be NICE to have it on the iPhone (and MAC) too......
Q-chan
You can. It's called using a Nokia to do something that should naturally be included on an iPhone.
I have a question. Can't you just take youe AT&T iPhone SIM and stick it in a Nokia, then use the Nokia as a modem for your laptop on your unlimited data plan?
Sure. I did that. Then I left the SIM in the Nokia.
I grew tired of fighting Apple's company-store iPhone ecosystem and am selling my iPhone.
Comments
Did anybody bother to read the original source, i.e., the Boy Genius Report at http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/...ethering-plan/ which initiated this conundrum.
Note the last paragraph:
UPDATE: Yes, we jumped the gun a little bit and now realize this was a horrible description on AT&T?s part to describe the process of hooking your iPhone up to iTunes. Ironically this email was sent to AT&T employees to try and clear up customer confusion.
This seems to more than support iFan's comment (#10), and for the sake of good journalism, I would hope that AppleInsider would rewrite the article or even delete it entirely.
I don't think it was "a horrible description on AT&T's part." The word usage is quite correct, but technical people with a limited vocabulary or wishful desires apparently use it only one way when it comes to cell phones. I choke that up to faulty comprehensive reading, something we all bungle from time to time.
Works great, would be NICE to have it on the iPhone (and MAC) too......
Q-chan
AT&T actually supports phone tethering, and it works great. On the contractual side you need a data plan plus a tethering agreement. I activated this for a friend using the TILT phone and a Windows laptop. After activating tethering on the phone and connecting the USB cable to the laptop, the computer recognized this as a cable modem
Works great, would be NICE to have it on the iPhone (and MAC) too......
Q-chan
You can. It's called using a Nokia to do something that should naturally be included on an iPhone.
I have a question. Can't you just take youe AT&T iPhone SIM and stick it in a Nokia, then use the Nokia as a modem for your laptop on your unlimited data plan?
Sure. I did that. Then I left the SIM in the Nokia.
I grew tired of fighting Apple's company-store iPhone ecosystem and am selling my iPhone.
Sure. I did that. Then I left the SIM in the Nokia.
I grew tired of fighting Apple's company-store iPhone ecosystem and am selling my iPhone.
Sweet!!!!!!!