“I have been paying extra for the LTE option on every tablet I’ve purchased in the last few years,” James Kendrick writes for ZDNet. “My purchase of the iPad Air 2 a few months ago was the exception to my LTE-required rule, and I regret it.”
“I bought the iPhone 6 Plus shortly before this, and with the Handoff feature of iOS 8 I figured I could use the phone as a hotspot for the LTE-less iPad,” Kendrick writes. “That worked well at first but I soon began to tire of using the phone’s LTE with the tablet. Connecting the two is easy enough by simply tapping the iPhone in the iPad Air 2 network list. With Handoff activated, that single tap turns on the iPhone 6 Plus in the gear bag, turns on the personal hotspot, and auto-connects the iPad to it; at least that’s the way it’s supposed to work.”
“Unfortunately, what is making me regret having to do that is the delay of getting everything going and getting to work. Sometimes the Handoff isn’t an instant connection, and the iPad takes a little while to pair with the iPhone,” Kendrick writes. “It doesn’t help that every once in a while the iPad fails to initially connect to the iPhone’s personal hotspot. An error dialog box appears on the iPad indicating connection with the iPhone failed and I have to start the process again. It’s not a long process, but when I’m in a hurry to jump online with the iPad Air 2 it is very annoying… The situation has me seriously considering selling my Wi-Fi only iPad Air 2 and getting one with LTE. ”
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MacDailyNews Take: IS anyone else experiencing this issue and/or regretting not having a Cellular-capable iPad?