No, actually I spoke with a "Senior Advisor" who confirmed it was bug, and would be fixed. He said that he checked with management. But you know, no one knows!
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New Verizon iPad Runs on AT&T 3G Networks with AT&T Micro-SIM
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No, actually I spoke with a "Senior Advisor" who confirmed it was bug, and would be fixed. He said that he checked with management. But you know, no one knows!
I get this, and I also believe that the carriers should let us use our Data however we choose or in whatever device we choose! I hope they will eventually offer a lump of data for all our device's and family members! Just like shared minutes with our phone plans. But they probably are making a killing sticking it to us with separating devices. They should also roll our Data over. AT&T has roll over minutes so why not roll over data???
From what I have read the reason is "rollover minutes" are basically just an advertising gimmick and rarely used. Reason for that is most people purchase more minutes then they actually need (or are forced to in a family plan) and rarely go into their "rollover" minutes. Before I dumped ATT after well over 20 years for T-Mo prepaid $30 plan for my Galaxy Nexus I always had the maximum allowed (5000 min I think) pool of rollover minutes.They should also roll our Data over. AT&T has roll over minutes so why not roll over data???
Now we use T-Mo's $30 unlimited text, pseudo-unlimited (5GB before 2G throttle) data and ONLY 100 minutes of talk. Saves me over $60/month over ATT and if I use more than 100 mins it's only 10c/min. LTE is meaningless to me. Don't need those speeds for web, email or even watching a movie and I get 8-12Mb download anyway from T-Mo.
Unfortunately the iPad is only 2G/Edge on T-Mo which is agonizingly slow.
Data is the big hog which is why they don't roll it over. Maybe when they triple the price and call it a "shared" plan like they are doing you a big favor they will.
I totally get what you're saying here, they will never give us anything without us paying more for it then it's worth, and yes the rollover minutes is a BIG gimmick I'm always around 5,000 of rollover minutes. I have a family plan with 4 iphone 4s's and we share 700 min which is not much but nowadays we mostly text, we rarely (my family) talk on the phone. Frankly I can't stand talking on the phone and when it rings I cringe, much rather just text. Save the talk when in person.
But of course as text got more popular they stuck it to us! Even with iMessage now, they still make you have a text plan! Apple tried as well as some Apps but no matter what you need plan.
Well, to be fair, the marginally increased thickness and weight is all due to the battery which was significantly enlarged to provide better battery life on LTE (also apparently it takes much longer to full charge the new iPad). So it's not like the mockery was unwarranted.
ATT does themselves - AGAIN !!
It hilarious watching ATT constantly making sure they maintain, along with US-T-Mumble, the lowest ratings and highest clown-to-customer ratio on earth... No wonder they wanted T--Mumble... They are the SAME !!
Worthless.... sure glad I am NOT and WILL NOT be one of their customers - EVER.
It hilarious watching ATT constantly making sure they maintain, along with US-T-Mumble, the lowest ratings and highest clown-to-customer ratio on earth... No wonder they wanted T--Mumble... They are the SAME !!
Worthless.... sure glad I am NOT and WILL NOT be one of their customers - EVER.
Look what ATT did with texting. Smallest plan you can get is $20/month unlimited. I maybe use 25 texts a month, for $5 it was worth it but because texting has becomes the new talking they charge $20 for "unlimited" like they are doing us a favor. $5 for 200 was fair for the small user so why not have one SMALL plan? Yes, I used Google Voice but didn't like the idea of different text phone numbers on my Android phone. It pissed me off so much I dumped them.
Ok I tried to do this except under Settings, General Settings, Network there is no APN to change. It only has Personal Hotspot, VPN and Wifi. Under Settings, Cellular Data it only has these options Cellular Data, Enable LTE, Data Roaming, View Account or SIM PIN.
If your sim is activated you shouldn't have to change anything. If it's not activated it won't work until it is. You can try this site if you want: http://www.unlockit.co.nz/unlockit/?tag=ipad but of course you will need an internet connection.
1) Steve mocked LTE chipsets because of poor power efficiency. Part of the reason was that first several LTE chipsets powered on multiple radios at once in order to make a functional phone. LTE radio for data, and 3G radio for voice. Hence why the early Android LTE phones had abysmal battery life.
On an iPad, there's no need for voice. So using the LTE radio becomes an option.
2) When a chip is announced, that's far from shipping. It typically means "we're letting you know this is coming soon" or "hey, you can can order a few samples for your engineers to play with, and then plunk down several million dollars so we get you an order in maybe half a year... maybe."
(seriously, you don't just run a wafer over a couple days. The lead time on something as small as a MSP430 is already 4-8 weeks while these have already been in full production for years.)
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Maybe I'm missing something, but that makes no sense to me.
I'll grant that doing the locking in the first place is probably part of the distribution deal with the carriers. Afterall, you need the locking in place to prevent people from just running off with the cost of the phone after getting it subsidized.
As for after the contracts are up, that's probably a carrier decision too.
But keeping them locked shouldn't drive up sales. In fact, it should lower sales. Getting a new phone for $199 isn't dependent on whether or not your old one is locked. But if the old one was unlocked, sales should be higher because more people would be inclined to sell the unlocked phone and buy the new one than just keep what they have.
I am kind of sad that Motorola's lost its former glory.
Likewise, my dad was reminiscing with a past coworker about how cutting edge HP was when they worked there. Things change in 20 years.
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Has anyone confirmed that a post paid AT&T iPad data sim card will work in a Verizon iPad?
Has anyone confirmed that a post paid AT&T iPad data sim card will work in a Verizon iPad?
Still work?
Can someone please confirm if you can still use a ATT 3G chip in the new VZ iPad?
I'm going on a trip and would like to be able to take the 3G chip out of my 3GS and pop it into my iPad when needed. I read about the APN, but I couldn't find a step by step how to.
Can someone please help me out. thanks
Can someone please confirm if you can still use a ATT 3G chip in the new VZ iPad?
I'm going on a trip and would like to be able to take the 3G chip out of my 3GS and pop it into my iPad when needed. I read about the APN, but I couldn't find a step by step how to.
Can someone please help me out. thanks
Ok, thank you. Does the new iPad use a smaller SIM card? Did the older iPads use the same size as the 3GS?