“‘My expectation is that there’s not going to be a lot of people out there looking for another subscription,’ he said during a webcast of an investor conference, adding that the device would be a mainly ‘Wi-Fi driven product,'” Carew reports.
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MacDailyNews Take: We’ll take the Wi-Fi + 3G models, thanks. And here we thought that our confidence that AT&T’s 3G network will be able to handle the influx of iPad users couldn’t be any lower.
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@ET, do we know that the wifi model doesn’t have true GPS?
Look at the iPad specs page:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
There, it says under Location:
Assisted GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
Cellular (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
There seems to be no difference in GPS for either models, buth have assisted GPS and Cellular, whatever that means.
@KenC,
We know it doesn’t have real GPS. Assisted GPS guesstimates your location based on cell towers and known wifi hotspots. True GPS uses an actual GPS chips that talks to satellites. aGPS is okay, but not the real thing.
Macbook air and iPhone, home wifi, tethering to a 6gb data plan.
Not sure I need the iPad……
If tethering is possible (I have it on my iPhone in Canada) that would be perfect. If not I am stuck with WiFi only as I’m not going to pony up $130 US for a 3G radio that might cost $5 to put in.
@ hairbo; KenC; ET
aGPS can be two things:
– A software-based system designed to speed satellite lock, by providing alternative positioning data, projecting satellite locations, etc.
– A system that relies solely on cell tower or wifi triangulation.
We won’t know ’til we know.
“‘My expectation is that there’s not going to be a lot of people out there looking for another subscription,’ he said…”
And he is right. No one is ‘looking’ for another subscription. Ideally, AT&T would offer a combined plan for iPhone/iPad users that would be lower cost than separate plans. If AT&T were to actually enable the promised iPhone tethering capability in the U.S., then that would be another option, of course.
The proliferation of mobile devices requires some proactive thinking by the wireless providers. Wireless connectivity should be an integrated service – not a piecemeal service – that attaches seamlessly to a variety of components (phone, laptop, tablet, etc.). If you don’t fix it, then Apple will eventually take, say $40B or so, and fix it for you.
Tethering goes over bluetooth.
What makes you think you can consume the bluetooth PAN network connection supplied by your tethered iPhone from your iPad? Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to tether it to my iPhone, but I don’t think it will happen.
@P5ycH0
What about Wi-Fi? Signal comes into iPhone via 3G, then out to iPad via Wi-Fi. One could also envision a dock-to-dock connector.