Posted: 5/23/2013 8:29:32 AM EDT
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So if you have say, a tablet with BT, what all can you stream from your smartphone to it?
A commercial for a tablet basically said you could stream movies and "keep in touch with friends" while driving down the road (it showed a passenger either texting, checking email, or Facebook). I've streamed audio to my car's radio a hundred times, but I didn't think you could stream movies, videos, text, internet, email, etc., from your smartphone to a tablet without tethering. What am I missing? |
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Teathering via cable is the best, then hot spot and then bluetooth. grab PDAnet of the web and try it out for a few days. if you like it,buy it. i am usually cheap and look for free versions of software, but it works so well i ponied up to buy it  The tablet that advertised this was a Lenovo, and it doesn't have cellular. As for a cable connection, I have an iPhone 5 - are you talking about hooking it to the tablet via the charging/USB cable? haven't tried that before. I'll look at PDAnet and see if that works for me. Thanks. ETA: PDAnet for the iPhone requires it to be jailbroken, and I know AT&T frowns big time on tethering. Without a tether, I'll bet you can't even use the tablet as a GPS nav device (?) (I'm guessing it needs an internet connection to do that.) |
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Teathering via cable is the best, then hot spot and then bluetooth. grab PDAnet of the web and try it out for a few days. if you like it,buy it. i am usually cheap and look for free versions of software, but it works so well i ponied up to buy it The tablet that advertised this was a Lenovo, and it doesn't have cellular. As for a cable connection, I have an iPhone 5 - are you talking about hooking it to the tablet via the charging/USB cable? haven't tried that before. I'll look at PDAnet and see if that works for me. Thanks. ETA: PDAnet for the iPhone requires it to be jailbroken, and I know AT&T frowns big time on tethering. Without a tether, I'll bet you can't even use the tablet as a GPS nav device (?) (I'm guessing it needs an internet connection to do that.) Jail break it and install it. its not a big deal and its reversible. With pda net, you can choose it to be wired, or hot spot. also has a hide method that supposedly keeps the provider from finding out. BTW, i am posting this on my laptop teathered to my iphone hot spot via pda net now. |