We're down to the final weeks before the debut of Apple's famed . Even with , though, plenty of pressing questions remain about the highly hyped device.
Today, one of those questions appears to be answered.
Apple's iPad, as we , will be sold in two editions: a Wi-Fi-only edition, set to become available on April 3, and a 3G-enabled edition, set to go on sale later in the month with contract-free data plans from AT&T.
What had been unknown up until now was whether Apple's Wi-Fi-based iPad would have the capability to tether to an iPhone, thereby letting you harness the data connection from your mobile plan to surf the Web that way as well.
The apparent answer, in a single syllable: no.
According to Apple blog , the disclosure came straight from the head honcho's billion-dollar mouth. A Swedish user named Jezper Söderlund says he sent an e-mail directly to Steve Jobs asking about the availability of tethering between the iPad and the iPhone -- and, he reports, Jobs wrote back.
