For what it's worth, I don't have a wifi router or Cable/digital TV service. Wifi is everywhere anyway, so why have your own wifi service when you can go to a restaurant or other business and get free wifi. I also have wifi at my in-laws house which we visit on nearly a weekly basis. I don't have the money for separate Internet service. We may get Internet/wifi but it won't be till next year. This was why I was thinking of getting the wifi/cellular combo version of the iPad.
Regards, Wayne On 7/23/13, RobH! <bobs...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 1, wifi and cellular is about $100 more, or it is over here. > > 2, audio and video takes up space, buy the biggest you can, memory goes up > in $100 stages. > > 3, don't know about your carriers, but we're at cross purposes. If you > don't have a cable link with a wifi router, it eliminates you having a wifi > > version (not that you can get rid of it), but would have to look for wifi > hotspot type service, or use some kindof data plan. YOu can get data only > cellular simms for them. You'd need to ask around on pricing of those, we > > work that all so different over here. Pity you hadn't got a cable > connection at home, how do you get TV? it's the same thing. TV/Broadband > packages are eubiquitous! Then a cheap wifi router would be a possibility > and skip the additional cost of a cellular model, unless you really want to > > take it out and still browse; and it still doesn't eliminate the hotspot > market either. > > Your own domestic wifi router would allow you to use all the iOs things > through it,... we do do that here. > > R. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerr...@gmail.com> > To: "viphone" <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 11:01 PM > Subject: Thoughts on getting an iPad Mini and other carriers > > > Greetings. My wife and I are considering getting an iPad Mini. I have > the following questions for those that have an iPad and/or an iPad > Mini: > 1. Is there a difference in price between the iPad Mini with wifi and > the one with wifi/cellular connection? > 2. What size did you get? We are looking at a 16 GB model, and we will > be using it for listening to Audible books, playing games, and using > other apps. My wife can see so she wants it for the larger screen. We > will keep our iPhones. > 3. If we get an AT&T iPad Mini, will that extend our current mobile > share data plans? Also, can we take our iPad Mini to another carrier? > I saw several different models of iPad Minis for all of the major U.S. > carriers. I wouldn't think it would make a difference which one you > get, since the iPhone uses specific frequencies and the iPads don't. > We are looking at switching to Sprint next year when our current > contracts run out. > We don't have wifi or Internet at home, so we were thinking of getting > the wifi only iPad Mini. I can also see advantages of having a > wifi/data plan model. 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