http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/or you can JJ your iphone and get it to work as a wifi spot for your ipad]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/I mean JB]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
Why not BJ it? (hehe)

...and I'm on verizon, if I get an iPad then I'm getting a pre plus on craigslist since I'm already paying for the data on the Droid. ]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
what?? No $1 for an extra kb after the 250MB? that is so not AT&T]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
So how come I cant get prepaid Data for my iPhone?

I'll gladgly pay $15 for 250 MB]]>Apr 28th 2010 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
Too bad wifi barely works on my iPad.]]>Apr 28th 2010 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://j.mp/apple-tablet-experience]]>Apr 28th 2010 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/There is no Wifi Hotspot on the AT&T unit, at least not at this point. ]]>Apr 28th 2010 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/ this]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
Not if you tether offically with support from the carrier.

Usually tethering is $60 / month + 2 year contract]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
You're saying tethering beats consistant 3G data? How?

I say jailbreaking your 3G iPad and using it as a mobile hotspot beats all.]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/yah. When do we get tethering!
-_-]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/It does show up slightly different bill though.]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Tethering has been around for years, you just have to do it yourself.
I've never had to pay for tethering and I've never been charged for it. Yeah, its lame that its not just built-in, but no matter what phone I've had, someone has figured out how to tether.
-Taylor]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
The little box you are all looking for exists, it's called a Novatel MiFi device. These devices use a regular SIM card as your phone would and produce a WiFi signal that any WiFi enabled device can connect to.

Now, the key is that, when will a company create a microSIM adapter so that you could put it into one of these Novatel devices...?]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
100% agreed - so much so that I refuse to pay for a data plan along with my voice plan (for which I'm still only paying $30/mo, and that's all I'll ever pay)… if I could get an iPad plan on a non-iPad-sized device (eg, 4th-gen iPhone), I'd use it as both my access point and my smart-VoIP-phone.

@Plazmic Flame, the problem remains the $60-80/mo required to use them; we're talking primarily about money here, not just technology.]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
Devices like the MiFi are out there, but you have to pay $60 a month, with a 5 GB cap. If the only device that you're going to use wirelessly is your iPad, then the iPad data plan is the most cost-effective plan out there, hands down. (That is, provided that you're not tethering to your phone without your carrier knowing.)

]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.www.matrixmultimedia.com/product.php?Prod=E-blocks%20mobile%20comms%20system&PHPSESSID=
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They will share the phone number, and you can't use both same time, but for that price who cares.]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
Can you post a link to that information so I can read more about it? I have searched deutch telecom, Vodafone and O2's sites and haven't been able to find anything about that. You didn't make that up did you?]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
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http://www.sonera.fi/files/Sonera.fi/Yksityisille/asiakasjulkaisut/Sonera-uutiset/SNews_01_08_screen.pdf?LinkType=Static%20File]]>Apr 28th 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
Offer to extend the plan, or auto-cancel, once the 250MB limit is reached and don't start charging crazy per-kilobyte fees.

Hopefully this catches on with Verizon.]]>Apr 28th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
Yeah, this is pretty decent of Apple. The warnings and no overage fees should be standard across carriers. Thanks, Steve!]]>Apr 28th 2010 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
I believe we owe this to *gasp* AT&T, though it could be the the result of Jobsian joint rearrangement.]]>Apr 29th 2010 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
I'm somewhat sympathetic to AT&T because I think any phone that consumes data like the iPhone does will lead to network load issues, but small easy opportunities missed like this one make me count the days until the phone isnt exclusive and the whole bottom falls out. ]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
Our free market at work: if enough people are willing to be gouged, they have no incentive to stop reaming us. Making the phone inexclusive won't change a thing; Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile are just as greedy with their Android/Blackberry/Other (smartphone) plans. *shrug* At this point, I'd settle for a smartphone that doesn't require a data plan.]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
I want that too (except for paying per call, that would incessantly piss me off). I'm saying, [i]at this point[/i] I'd settle… if I [b]could[/b] get just a data plan ala iPad's, I'd just VoIP my calls - but that's exactly what the carriers don't want.]]>Apr 28th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/Apr 28th 2010 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/atandt-posts-fast-facts-on-ipad-3g-data-plans/
Doesn't have anything to do with the internet, I was talking about their 5gb cap limit on "unlimited" data plans.]]>Apr 28th 2010 3:18PM