Thinking of cancelling my 16 gb wifi order to get 16 gb 4g . should i?

[Laserawesome]

Thank u

I've been going back and forth as well -LTE or wifi 32 gb

I did travel often for work and it will only be less. I would pursue reimbursement if I used the 3G.

But the reality is I use tethering with my iPhone to my iPad 2 and it worked well.

Sure I don't have gps but IMO its not worth $130

So really I'll stick with the wifi

You DO have GPS though, on your iPhone!

 

[Born Again]

Right

It would be a bit annoying using the iPad and it triangulated with the wifi


Very inaccurate

Wish the iPhone would share gps with the iPad

My 2 cents:
TL: DR- Its not worth the extra cost to get 4G if you own an iPhone, have other GPS options and don't plan on being away from wifi that often.

I've been having the same dilemma. Before the release I had wavered back and forth about wifi or 4g. I own an 32gig iphone 4 and purchased my first Ipad 2 32G wifi a month ago and returned it 2 weeks later so I could purchase the Ipad 3 instead.

After using the Ipad 2 for 2 weeks I knew that I had to move up to 64g. 32 gigs isn't enough room for me and the hundred dollars was worth it to double the space.

Today I pre-ordered a 64 gig Wifi Ipad 3. Since then I have been wondering if I made the right decision with wifi only. Will I need the 4G and will I feel like I made a mistake not getting it? Here's the conclusion I came to:

I plan on mostly using the iPad at home where I have wifi and eventually at grad school, where wifi is also ubiquitous. I don't travel for business and when I travel by air for vacation I plan on having any movies that I plan to watch already downloaded on my iPad. Most hotels nowadays have wifi as well. Will I miss the GPS? No, because I have GPS built in to my cars, and I have an iPhone for which I'm already paying for an unlimited data plan for back up GPS if I rent a car. I don't plan on lugging my iPad everywhere I go when I am out shopping or around town, and the phone is much easier to carry so that covers the web when I'm out.

The only time I can see using the 4G is if I happen to have the iPad with me outside of my house and not near wifi, and I really want to surf the web to look at something that I need to see with a bigger screen than a phone. I don't foresee this happening often except when I am at my home up in Maine but in that case 4G isn't even available anyway. In that case I also would worry that I could easily run up a huge data bill as well. If I really needed it I could probably find a coffee shop that has wifi.

I feel like I'm already splurging getting the 64 gig iPad, so is it worth 130 bucks to add 4G? For 829 bucks I feel like might as well get a macbook air. Thats a very expensive tablet. So in the end, my conclusion is that its not worth the extra 130+data just to use the 4G a couple times when I don't feel like using my iPhone. If I didn't own an iPhone 4 then maybe.

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I was thinking about this as well, but that is not a good reason to get it. What is new today will be old tomorrow. You shouldn't buy something just because its new- that usually leads to buyer's remorse down the road. Buy it if you need it.

You DO have GPS though, on your iPhone!

 

[slu]

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For my use case, the wifi only iPad has been the right choice. I have an iPhone. The iPad rarely leaves my house, but if I do travel with it, there is generally wifi (hotels, family's houses, friends houses, etc.). On the bus, at work, and in the car, I use the iPhone. For me, there is no need for anything but a wifi iPad.

 

[xkmxkmxlmx]

The only way I would buy a 3G/4G/LTE version is if the ISPs were offering a per memory amount rather than a monthly sub.

I would like the ability to buy 5GB of usage and use it when I need it rather than having to spend another $30-$80 ON TOP of my already hefty phone bill.

 

[aluren]

If you really need internet on the go, just stop by a Starbucks with your wifi model.

 

[Idgit]

My iPhone is locked to the carrier and I take a lot of road trips into the US, so I can't use my iPhone because the roaming charges would bankrupt me.

An iPad 4G isn't locked and will allow me to access the internet and GPS in my car wherever there is a cellular signal without incurring roaming charges because I can purchase a month-to-month package from a local carrier. I can still use it even if I stay at a campsite that's not too remote instead of a hotel.

That's why I think I'm going to get a 4G version in spite of the added cost up front.