User manual
Table Of Contents
- Getting started
- New features and enhancements
- Getting to know your tablet
- Using the touch screen
- Insert a micro SIM card
- Personalizing your home screen
- View your notifications
- Status bar icons
- Switch to a new tablet
- Setting up your tablet
- About your BlackBerry ID
- About BlackBerry Balance
- Overview of tablet settings
- Supported audio, video, and picture file formats and codecs
- Messages
- Contacts
- Calendar
- Browser
- BlackBerry Bridge
- About BlackBerry Bridge
- New features
- Connect your tablet and smartphone using BlackBerry Bridge
- BlackBerry Bridge basics
- Remote control
- BlackBerry Bridge vs Tethering
- Do data charges apply?
- About synchronizing Wi-Fi and VPN profiles
- About using BlackBerry Bridge in your organization
- Troubleshooting: BlackBerry Bridge
- Connections
- Connect to a mobile network
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth technology
- Tether your tablet to a Bluetooth enabled device
- Share files between your computer and tablet using Wi-Fi
- Share files between your computer and tablet using a USB connection
- Turn on airplane mode
- Connect your tablet to an HDMI display
- Troubleshooting: HDMI connections
- Keyboard and typing
- Documents To Go
- Print To Go
- BlackBerry App World
- Camera
- Pictures
- Videos
- Music
- Music Store
- Battery and power
- Applications
- Clock
- Video chat
- Video Store
- Bing Maps
- BlackBerry News
- Security
- Podcasts
- Voice notes
- Legal notice
Tether your tablet to a Bluetooth enabled
device
Need Internet on the go, but you're not near a Wi-Fi hotspot? When there's no other way to access the Internet, you can
tether your
BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to a Bluetooth enabled smartphone.
In order to tether your tablet to a Bluetooth enabled device, your smartphone must have a data plan that supports
tethering, and your wireless service provider must allow tethering. Your smartphone must also be Bluetooth enabled, and
the IT policy for Bluetooth DUN must be enabled. For more information about any of these requirements, contact your
wireless service provider or administrator, check your wireless service plan, and consult the documentation that came with
your smartphone.
1. On your tablet, tap > Internet Tethering.
2. Select a Bluetooth enabled smartphone from the list.
3. To assign an Internet tethering profile, do one of the following:
• Select a wireless service provider from the list.
• To create a custom profile, tap Add and complete the fields.
4. Tap Connect.
When you're not using the tethering connection, you should disconnect the session. To disconnect, tap > Internet
Tethering > Disconnect.
While your smartphone is tethered to your tablet, you might not be able to use your smartphone's Phone application,
Messaging applications, or applications that use the Internet. To receive a phone call, your smartphone might turn off the
tethered internet connection. In addition, when your tablet is tethered to a smartphone, you cannot send messages from
your tablet to the tethered smartphone.
Share files between your computer and
tablet using Wi-Fi
Watch a video about ways to share files:
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