iPad Wi-Fi + 3G Pre-Orders Arriving, Unboxing Galleries Posted

[shervieux]

This is bogus. Just surfing and on the WSJ App.

Trying to change to unlimited!

ATT is a joke, their customer service is joke!

Apple selecting ATT is once again a very poor decision.

The people at ATT have no training on the iPad sign-up, cannot help you change the service plan. The on iPad system is not taking the change.

And, we have this problem now with 2 of the 3G iPad's.

People be forewarned. Best to go with the unlimited plan, or you will find out the hard and totally frustrating way!

Apple, I hate you for using ATT!

I posted on this or another thread on how the 250mb was not worth it.

as a recap:

1. the average email is 5mb or more, especially if it has attachments. A lot of it is due to the meta data encapsulation.
2. Just connecting to your email or the internet uses mb's.
3. any push notifications, or timed email retrieval uses your mb's
4. if your on your mac and use safari, launch the activity window and just watch how it fills up and the mb's for each as you surf. Especially if you are watching video.

I found all this out while researching international rates, when i was headed to the Bahamas. i decided not to have any internet that weekend.

 

[ryanwarsaw]

I only did a bit of research on this but from what I could find, only a few carriers have the micro sim cards. AT&T and I heard T-Mobile does as well. Also, only certain 3G frequencies will work with the iPad so I think a few carriers could only offer Edge data type networks if they sold micro sim cards.

I guess they will adapt and make some.Preliminary reports say that the mini SIM only uses less plastic. People in Thailand are reporting that you can just cut the plastic off.

 

[RalfTheDog]

I posted on this or another thread on how the 250mb was not worth it.

as a recap:

1. the average email is 5mb or more, especially if it has attachments. A lot of it is due to the meta data encapsulation.
2. Just connecting to your email or the internet uses mb's.
3. any push notifications, or timed email retrieval uses your mb's
4. if your on your mac and use safari, launch the activity window and just watch how it fills up and the mb's for each as you surf. Especially if you are watching video.

I found all this out while researching international rates, when i was headed to the Bahamas. i decided not to have any internet that weekend.

5MB? Perhaps 5KB but I think that is stretching things a bit. You could hit 5KB if you have images turned on. I think most people have images turned off because they don't want people to track when they view the email.

Do any email providers let you send a 5MB email?

 

[Dooger]

5MB? Perhaps 5KB but I think that is stretching things a bit. You could hit 5KB if you have images turned on. I think most people have images turned off because they don't want people to track when they view the email.

Do any email providers let you send a 5MB email?

Of course they do. The Gmail limit was 25MB last time I checked. Although I agree that you don't often see many emails anywhere near that size.

 

[RalfTheDog]

Of course they do. The Gmail limit was 25MB last time I checked. Although I agree that you don't often see many emails anywhere near that size.

Any time I am sending a file that big, I just put it on one of my FTP servers and give the person a username and password.

 

[Otaviano]

I posted on this or another thread on how the 250mb was not worth it.

as a recap:

1. the average email is 5mb or more, especially if it has attachments. A lot of it is due to the meta data encapsulation.

The average e-mail is 5MB?

 

[holmesf]

The average e-mail is 5MB?

Yeah, I think he's off by a factor of about 50 ...

My Gmail account uses 417MB for 3352 messages. That's 127KB per message.

 

[sigjuice]

Would anyone think that there'd be any 3g ipads left by next saturday?

It doesn't look like the 3G iPads are selling like hot cakes. I walked into the local Apple Store (Valley Fair Mall, Santa Clara) on Friday, ten minutes before it was about to close. There was no wait at all. I was out of the store with my 64 GB in five minutes. They said that they were out of the 16 GB models though.

 

[pika2000]

You are correct, and your points make sense in the context of the success of the iPhone. But one has to wonder how many more iPhones would be sold if AT&T were not the exclusive carrier, and Apple offered the iPhone to work on other networks.

Well, Apple is Apple. Besides market share, they also pay attention to production efficiency, clean lineup, and most importantly, better margins. I'm sure they had a CDMA iPhone (they did try Verizon first), but then is the number of people buying the iPhone under Verizon would be enough for Apple to counter the cost they have to spend in making 2 different iPhones, R&D, support, and just for one device that only works in 1 country (the US). Then there's the fact that both AT&T and Verizon are moving to LTE anyway, so is spending R&D for a CDMA iPhone worth it? Apple probably thought it's not worth it, and they rather focus on GSM/UMTS iPhone and spend the money on marketing it worldwide. I could be wrong, but following Apple's preference to clean lineup and better margins, it makes sense.

 

[Terminal.app]

Kinda ugly. I dont like the black line across the top. Ugly is a strong word, just not as nice and elegant as the wifi. Besides, tehtering is coming. One way or another.

I think both models should've had the "black line", or the black plastic antenna. I can't imagine WiFi reception is that good when the only opening for the 802.11 signal is the small hole behind the Apple logo. Just wait, the Rev. B WiFi model will have the black plastic antenna at the top as well.

 

[PsyD4Me]

I have no complaints about the wifi reception, much faster than my iPhone

 

[ukwildcat]

It doesn't look like the 3G iPads are selling like hot cakes. I walked into the local Apple Store (Valley Fair Mall, Santa Clara) on Friday, ten minutes before it was about to close. There was no wait at all. I was out of the store with my 64 GB in five minutes. They said that they were out of the 16 GB models though.

All 4 stores in my area are completely sold out of the 3G iPads. My area meaning the Tampa and Orlando stores.

 

[Big JW]

IPad 3G works with Telstra - confirmed

My iPad 3G arrived in Sydney at lunchtime today and I can confirm that a trimmed prepaid Telstra sim works perfectly. Posting this over Telstra 3G in fact.

And their new plans are pretty good, too!

 

[cmwade77]

AT&T's service may be poor, but it's not a poor decision. Apple wants to make 1 device for all markets worldwide. For 3G UMTS in the US, their choice is 850 band (AT&T) and 1700 band (T-Mobile). There are other countries that also use the 850 band, while only T-Mobile US uses 1700, so Apple picked a tri-band UMTS chip supporting 850 band. AT&T just happens to be the only other carrier that uses GSM/UMTS in the US, has more customers than T-Mobile, and the only other GSM carrier that has the best coverage (vs T-Mobile).

Hate to tell you, T-Mobile's coverage is far better than AT&T's (especially for data), at least everywhere that I go. My iPhone is often on Edge network when my wive's MyTouch is on 3G.