| Snowflake |
01-27-2010 10:25 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by beav
(Post 400648)
> Can the non-3G version tether to an iPhone over 3G?
Although the OS supports tethering, this would require carrier deals to enable. Personally, I've had my laptop tethered through my iPhone for the last six months or so and the experience is completely seamless.
|
I may have worded that poorly... What I meant to ask was, can the iPad connect to an iPhone via bluetooth, and the iPhone connect to the 3G network, and that way use the iPhone's 3G networking to provide network services to the iPad. Just like you do with your laptop now. My iPhone3G is tethering-enabled, and I do the same thing you do with your laptop, i'm just wondering if i'll be able to do that with the iPad or whether i'll have to buy an iPad with 3G.
Quote:
> Multitasking? and before you answer this, the follow-up question: Why not?
...Basically, you've put the user in charge of managing when apps start and stop. The end result for most users is that lots of apps end up running all the time which degrades system performance and kills battery life.
|
That I understand. If you can provide feedback to the dev team, i'd suggest this: My jailbroken iPhone runs the apps Backgrounder and ProSwitcher. I do notice that if I leave apps in the background, that my battery life suffers. At times, I am willing to live with that. When i'm not, I manually close the apps I don't want. However, at least so far, I haven't noticed a performance hit. Maybe i'm not running anything really difficult in the background.
Perhaps there could be a way to make this a user-selectable thing... Kind of like the brightness. You could choose to have the OS manage the apps, or choose to manually close things when you're done. An "advanced settings" page or something. Unfortunately this probably goes against Steve's philosophy for the product, so we'll just have to wait for someone to jailbreak the iPad. :)
Thanks for answering some questions (and not answering the ones you can't talk about). It's nice to know that there's someone around who knows about the internals a bit.
To whoever asked about PDF's, I don't know if iBook can read them but the iPhone can read PDF's just fine if you get them in an email. I know I have an app that displays PDF's but I forget the name and the phone isn't handy right now... I think I had to start the app, and then download the PDF from within the app, but it did work.
|