Comments on: 3 Reasons Apple’s iPad 3G Service Is “Magical and Revolutionary”

By: oPad

oPad — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:03:34 +0000

“I think the iPad will only appear magical and revolutionary to low-tech consumers”

Constable Odor, the problem, for you, is the majority audience consists of low tech users"

Yacko, you're absolutely right. If the majority of consumers are older people ( our parents and their parents ) who could care less about the geeky stuff. Maybe Apple is so successful because they're the first company to acknowledge that even the nerdiest geeks have plain ordinary parents. No wonder they're selling 1 iPad every 3 seconds!

By: George McIntyre

George McIntyre — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:31:25 +0000

Hi everyone. I got my wife ;) a new iPad 3G for her birthday. It was pre-ordered in California and it arrived last week. Its her birthday today so we opened it and fell in love all over again - although this time not with each other.

I had ordered an extra SIM card for MOVISTAR (Spanish Telecom operator) and I cut it down to size and put it in the SIM slot. At first I got only the 3G symbol but no internet but then I went into Settings and Cellular Data and then entered the following:

APN: movistar.es username: movistar password: movistar

It then worked like a dream - super fast internet at home on 5Ghz wifi and outside using 3G.

Word of warning. I had to go to the local shop again this morning for another card because I was hasty and cut some of the metal part of the SIM card. DO NOT DO THIS! You will regret it. Fortunately a new SIM is only 6 euros.

Also, I found the APN info by googling. So should work for other countries as well.

Hope this helps /George

By: Scott F

Scott F — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:56:53 +0000

I spoke to an Apple counselor on line. No way to change micro-sim cards, no way to reprogram the micro-sim card from foreign cards to US cards or vice versa.
This in my mind is problem Numero Uno with this device. How dumb is it not to have a device that can switch carriers?
How hard would it be to make it able to switch between Softbank or DOCOMO in Japan and AT&T in the US?

By: Dayne

Dayne — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:30:12 +0000

And what hardware would be lacking exactly? I'm not even an apple fanboy and I can't find anything wrong with the hardware, and if you heard about OS 4.0 you know multitasking and a lion's share of other enhancements will make the 3G ipad a viable laptop alternative.....

By: Clint A.

Clint A. — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:21:53 +0000

Brett,

I predict that your "feeling" regarding user's iPad data usage will be proven quite incorrect. In the past 30 days, on my iPhone, I have clocked data usage at approximately 911 MB. Please keep in mind, this is on a device who's 'window' to the cloud is physically much smaller than the iPad's.

By: carlos

carlos — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:39:44 +0000

Hi there I live in honduras central america planning to preorder the 3g but I am afraid if there is going to be compatibly down here we have 3g bands allready Any advise please

By: Suzuki Busa

Suzuki Busa — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:21:03 +0000

3G ? I thought 2010 is the year 4G takes off. Haven't you heard of LTE (Verizon fields this year) or WiMax (fielded last year). Where is the iPad 4G edition ? I will stick with just WiFi on my iPad until they get proper 4G radios in there.

By: Jasen

Jasen — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:19:23 +0000

I just think it's amazing that we live in a world where"low-tech consumers" are using a .5 inch thin, 1.5 lbs multitouch enabled 10 inch tablet with constant data connectivity.

By: karen Kruse

karen Kruse — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:10:50 +0000

Why AT&T they have the worst area of coverage? Will you ever be using other carriers?

By: Richard Garrett

Richard Garrett — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:10:46 +0000

I live in an area in Wyoming that is not served by AT&T but does have a GSM provider (Union Cellular). Will the data plan work for me?