It seems that the iPhone Dev Team have been wicked busy of late. According to MacNN, along with their recent announcment of the untethered jailbreak champ Spirit, they've also wrangled a method for sending SMS messages from an iPad 3G. Sadly, for the time being, however, most users should classify the find under "proof of concept."
In order to send out a text message from their iPad, the iPhone Dev Team had to jump through a number of hoops. The hack has no GUI requiring raw code to leverage it, nor will it work using the 3G Micro-SIM that the tablet come provided with, as AT&T prohibits the service on the iPad. Varying reports state that users hot to trot with iPad SMS at their beck and call can either insert a Micro-SIM provided by a different service, or trim down an exisiting AT&T SIM to Micro-SIM size.
You might want to wait this one out for the time being, folks. With no graphic user interface, and the tinker-work involved to get this up and running, it seems like a lot of trouble to go through in order to fire off a message that you could send out on your phone a heck of a lot easier. There's little doubt that if the iPhone Dev Team can produce a viable, user-friendly version of this hack for the masses to partake in, we'll hear about it soon enough.
pditty357
May 03, 2010 at 7:46pm
Why bother hacking when you can just install textie... It's working great on my iPad 3G model no hack needed!
