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Regrets going for WIFI only version?
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I got an LTE model, so no regrets here. I will use wifi 95% of the time, but a data connection sure is a luxury when there is time to kill and no wifi to be found.
No.
The wifi version I think is a better deal if you have a phone that is already tethered and/or you are always near wifi.
Why play the extra $130 to have THE OPTION of using 4G. I'm happy with my choice.
The wifi version I think is a better deal if you have a phone that is already tethered and/or you are always near wifi.
Why play the extra $130 to have THE OPTION of using 4G. I'm happy with my choice.
Nope. My carrier allows free hotspot tethering for any plans with >1GB data 
Not to mention LTE on my carrier of choice is suspiciously missing from my city, so I'd be using 3G if I did. With a 6GB plan on my iPhone and free tethering, I couldn't be happier. (I also mostly use it at home with my Wi-Fi network anyway, so no loss there really.)
Not to mention LTE on my carrier of choice is suspiciously missing from my city, so I'd be using 3G if I did. With a 6GB plan on my iPhone and free tethering, I couldn't be happier. (I also mostly use it at home with my Wi-Fi network anyway, so no loss there really.)
Not at all. The iPad travels with me, and I use hotel wireless. If I need to use it elsewhere I've got an employer provided 4g wifi hotspot.
90% of all use is at home on wireless.
90% of all use is at home on wireless.
No regrets here. I figure I have my iPhone for when I need to check email or look something up when I'm out of WiFi range. I have plenty of books, magazines, games, tv shows, and movies on my iPad to keep me occupied when I don't have WiFi. I didn't feel like paying $130 extra for something I'll likely never use. Somehow I managed to survive all those pre-cell phone/data plan days of my youth, so I think I'll do just fine now.
I started out with the wifi only iPad but returned it to get the 4G/LTE version because I anticipate traveling quite a bit this year on a tour bus, so I'm sure wifi won't be available most of the time.
If it was $60 or less for the upgrade I would have sprung for it, but it's not worth $130 for me personally because my iPad rarely leaves my home, I would most likely only use it when my home connection was being eaten by something else.
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And with scarce LTE frequency bands, roaming is close to impossible. The 4G connectivity of a particular iPad is tied to a single country (or worse, carrier!).
Just knowing of that limitation is very frustrating to me. Even if I never need to roam. I would much rather have a generic Wi-Fi model for the peace of (OCD-driven) mind... And tether my phone's connection when necessary.
If the iPad 3 is like the iPad 2 then the GPS is part of the cellular chip. Location service will try to find your approximate location using wifi.
If you teather the iPad Wi-fi to an iPhone, I believe that it can obtain the GPS location from the iPhone. This was the case before.
Otherwise, the Ipad will determine the location based on wifi, but it is not very accurate.
I know it does. I'm just pointing out that the Wifi iPad itself doesn't have aGPS.
No way, I mean the way wireless carriers rip you off with their data plans I have no plans to get 4G/LTE any time soon.
Why pay 1/3 more when I have wifi at home and at most of the places I'd take my iPad? I have an iPhone just in case I can't find wifi.