feralc

I hope this helps, the Tmobile sim card will give you 3g connection, the AT&T will give you only 2G but the car stores the maps you frequent drive so that is enough in my experience, I am not sure if Iphones have a normal size sim card or the smaller that the IPADs have, if that is the case you would need to get an adapter so you can use the sim card in your phone in your car, so answering the question you need to take out the sim card and insert it into the car, by doing so you will not have phone capabilities in your car, it is not like your car becomes a giant phone, in Europe if you do this (I have heard) you can make phone calls using the sim card in the car, but here in the US you cannot. Regarding tethering you are confused is the other way around, let's think you are in the car and you are using the google maps etc but also you have an ipad, you would be able to connect to the car's wifi hopspot and surf the web through the ipad (in the real world even with the tmobile 3g connection is extraordinarly slow). So tethering works (using the car as a hotspot not your iphone) but is useless.
Back to the technicals, when you insert the sim card you go to connection settings and in APN only type "phone" leave password blank by entering a space and wait a couple of minutes and that's it you would be able to use the AtT network at 2g speed, if you have further problems let me know and I will be happy to help, it is really simple.

feralc

By the way Verizon and AT&T came with data shared planes for smartphones, ipads etc so I really doubt you can use the verizons sim card because it is a complete different tecnology vs Tmobile and AT&T but if you have AT&T you can ask them to share your plan with your "ipad" and use that sim card (at 2g) with your car for 10 dlls per month vs 30 dlls tmobile audi connect 3g service, and the google maps will not kill you with overage, just a thought.

wpbA7

Does any body have or know of a step by step instruction for this for those of us who are technologically challeged. I did not buy the T-mobile plan. I have unlimited AT&T. I have the ihone 4 and ipad. Regards.

feralc

when you insert the sim card you go to connection settings and in APN only type "phone" leave password blank by entering a space and wait a couple of minutes and that's it you would be able to use the AtT network at 2g speed

UberS5

YES its possible. You need to make sure you have the data plan/ Audi Connect and your iPhone. Connect your phone thru the Bluetooth. You also need to make sure the phone is connected via the WiFi. On the MMI screen select "source" and select "iphone". this will allow the phone to stream music apps and the music player in your phone. I have a whole folder for music apps. Ex: DI Radio, Fusion Radio, iHeartRadio, mix.dj, Pandora and Gaydar Radio in London. All of the apps use the data connection to stream the music and the music plays through the B&O Sound flawlessly w no interruption.
I hope this helps

hyperbolic

I know there is not other way to do this currently, but this seems like so much work constantly. I'd much rather have a Pandora app in the car that would just work without fumbling with things when I get into the car. I hope Audi realizes this and will make it available at some point.

swassbac

I can confirm this works WITHOUT a WiFi connection to Audi Connect. Initially it didn't for me but that was because I didn't have Bluetooth Audio toggled in the Audi MMI Bluetooth Setup screen.

snagitseven

You are absolutely correct. Audi Connect Wifi has no relationship to bluetooth music streaming from a mobile device. The bluetooth audio setting for the device is required as well as selecting the correct bluetooth/device source in the MMI. Pandora works great for me.
Sirius, Pandora, iPhone music and video library, SD card, Jukebox, HD radio, AM/FM....so many choices and so little time.

Necser

Nuts! tried everything:

• phone (User/pass: blank)
• proxy (User/pass: blank)
• wap.cingular (user: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM pass: CINGULAR1)
• isp.cingular (user: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM pass: CINGULAR1)

- nothing works

I even called At&t and added car's IMEI. Still no go. Data transferred 0bites. I get the 2G light up though in the lower right of the MMI screen...

What am I doing wrong? WAG-COM tricks?

feralc

Phone password blank and wait a couple of mins
It is not immediately, if does not work remove the sim card and reinsert