There are 2 kinds of iPads: Wi-Fi only & WiFi with 3G. The Wi-Fi with 3G iPad need a mini SIM card. You can surf the internet anywhere where your mobile carrier is. With the Wi-Fi only model you can only surf close to Wi-Fi hot spots Wholesale Ryan Kerrigan Jersey , Coffee shops or hotels… And you can make calls with the iPad. But is not so convenient. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. But I called with the free application Skype. Additionally the iPads come with 3 memory sizes: 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB. I think 32 GB is ok. 64 GB if you want to download a lot of music or pictures.
The new iPad 2 is the same – but has camera, is thinner and is a bit faster.
The iPad can be used as a phone type device and will take a ‘mini-sim’ (The same as the iPhone) that is a sim card which is smaller than your usual sim card.
You should be able to get a Pay as you go Mini-Sim and arrange a package depending on you usage. If you have a regular phone such as a Nokia, your Sim will not fit the iPad.
The most important negative of using the ipad as a reader is the fact that the screen glares in sunlight and its impossible to read. I love the ipad and dont see the problem with backlit reading and it being heavier considering all it does and how beautiful the books look compared to kindle Wholesale Jordan Reed Jersey , but if you will ever read outside the ipad is definately a bad choice, its really terrible in sunlight. If all you are doing is reading the battery should last you all day, but the kindle last several weeks? That’s pretty good.
So I took gamble and signed up to Ipad Ebooks service, it cost me ?19.99 and the second I got my access it has become the best purchase I have ever made. Instead of paying each time a new ebooks is released I now just log onto the site and download the ebook when its available instantly. Its not only ebooks either I have found novels Wholesale Josh Norman Jersey , anime, bestsellers fiction and non-fiction. I have already downloaded approx 90 books and novels which I am saving and storing on my iPad 2, and will be downloading many more before my holiday where I will be taking my ipad eReader to use for the plane journey and for reading in the sun on the beach.
The best part is if I had brought each ebook individually I would of paid around $900(assuming the ebooks cost just $10 each). So i have already by signing up to Ipad Ebooks Online I have saved (conservatively $850) and that is within just 1 month of signing up, what is better is the fact I save more and more EVERYTIME I download more Books. I also now keep copies of these books to my Blackberry as well and have no compatibility problems with it at any time. I love the way I brought the service for one piece of technology yet now I can use it on any mobile phone Wholesale Trent Williams Jersey , computer or laptop