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Yes, you can. 100% certain because I do it myself with an iPhone 4s and and 3rd gen iPad.
iPhone can create a "personal hotspot" which an ipad/laptop/whatever can use to share the phone's 3G connection and use the phone contract's data allowance.
I reckon the 3G was well worth the extra money, but it depends on how you're going to use it I suppose. If you're just consuming content you've preloaded on it then you don't need an internet connection, but if you use it to actually do stuff or you work away a lot then having to scavenge around for a wifi connection (or pay the ludicrous rates hotels tend to charge) would be a bit of a pain.
I agree with Nick.
When I got my Kindle, I bought the Wifi and 3G one because I wanted to be able to get content wherever I was in the world for free. Not that you can do much surfing on a Kindle,but there is enough to read email and the news using the "experimental" (Amazon's term for "crap") browser.
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No - your question was "So the iPad can use the iPhone as a 3G connection?" and Nick said you couldn't. That is correct - the iPad cannot use the iPhone as a 3G connection.
What Mr.Whippy has said is possible is setting up an iPhone as a Wifi hotspot and connecting to that. The connection would be via Wifi, not 3G.
HTH
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No - your question was "So the iPad can use the iPhone as a 3G connection?" and Nick said you couldn't. That is correct - the iPad cannot use the iPhone as a 3G connection.
What Mr.Whippy has said is possible is setting up an iPhone as a Wifi hotspot and connecting to that. The connection would be via Wifi, not 3G.
HTH
WHS.
Nick was right. FaQQer is right. Suityou is a bedwetter. Eternaloptimist is a dullard.
No - your question was "So the iPad can use the iPhone as a 3G connection?" and Nick said you couldn't. That is correct - the iPad cannot use the iPhone as a 3G connection.
What Mr.Whippy has said is possible is setting up an iPhone as a Wifi hotspot and connecting to that. The connection would be via Wifi, not 3G.
No - your question was "So the iPad can use the iPhone as a 3G connection?" and Nick said you couldn't. That is correct - the iPad cannot use the iPhone as a 3G connection.
What Mr.Whippy has said is possible is setting up an iPhone as a Wifi hotspot and connecting to that. The connection would be via Wifi, not 3G.
HTH
Epic success - See the emboldened words in the quote. Maybe you should have asked "So the iPad can use the iPhone's 3G connection?"
HTH BISDI
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