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Thanks. No matter really. I will be pulling the trigger on 32GB 3G/Wi-Fi iPad later this afternoon. Having it delivered to my new house in Manassas...the current residents/owners said they had no problems with us forwarding our mail and mailing a few boxes of stuff to them. Hopefully the new iPad will be there when I arrive on 14 July as we hit the road for a two week vacation on the 15th and I would like to take it with me.

Cheers,
Jim

c130king wrote:In other words if you are on the road...not in a wi-fi area...and you want to get a 3G plan...can you do it?

Sorry Jim, but I'm not sure about that, since I signed up for my plan while using WiFi [at home]. I do recall that during my first couple of days, prior to signing up, it seemed that every time I accessed an internet application I was asked if I wanted to get a 3G plan. Since I didn't yet have one, I wasn't trying to get access where there was no WiFi. But there are lots of places with free WiFi if you are on the road, including McDonalds
http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/services/free_wifi.html , Panera Bread, and [as of next month] Starbucks.

Doug

Catigale wrote:

It can't print a

Nice solution in Apps Store for this.

How so?
You obviously must print from something that has a printer right?

Also, Microsoft has started their Office Web Apps which I guess is to compete with Google Docs. Most of the MS Office apps are available online where you can store your files and then print them later from a PC that actually has Office loaded.

parrothead wrote:But there are lots of places with free WiFi if you are on the road, including McDonalds
http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/services/free_wifi.html , Panera Bread, and [as of next month] Starbucks.

Doug

Yup... seems free WiFi is EVERYWHERE. I would hope Jim has it in his new house as how is he gonna get to this forum.

Jim....I hope the current residents aren't having their post forwarded to their new address and your iPad goes there.

RussMT wrote: Yup... seems free WiFi is EVERYWHERE. I would hope Jim has it in his new house as how is he gonna get to this forum.

Jim....I hope the current residents aren't having their post forwarded to their new address and your iPad goes there.

My family can't live without Wi-Fi. So we will have it at home. But I use my laptop at home. The iPad for me will be mostly a way to entertain myself while travelling either on my daily 90 minute commute or on my all too frequent trips. And of course while on the boat...

The trigger has been pulled on a new iPad 32GB Wi-Fi + 3G plus an overly expensive Apple branded cover. Free shipping and it should ship in 7-10 days per the Apple website. The current residents are being very cool and told me there is no problem with ordering stuff and mailing some boxes of stuff...which will happen on Monday thus reducing the amount of stuff we have to carry in our suitcases. We will be visiting our new house on 14 July. And they don't move until the first week of August. And all the mail to me is addressed to me so the post office won't forward it to them.

Can't wait to get it and start playing with boating apps. Ready to get my "geek" on...

Cheers,
Jim

c130king wrote:Free shipping and it should ship in 7-10 days per the Apple website.

Sounds like you will have a fun toy waiting for you when you get there.

And all the mail to me is addressed to me so the post office won't forward it to them.

The Post Office can't seem to deliver mail and boxes addressed to us at our house. We live at 2359 and our stuff often goes down the street to 2539. We get each others mail/boxes often. It's a joke between us that they are dyslexic. You'd think they would know our names by now.

In your case, I assume the current residents won't be forwarding anything until August. Also, only the USPS forwards stuff. Apple will probably ship via a carrier that requires a signature, like UPS or FedEx.

--Russ

Update on this thread

For Russ ... I now have 3G coverage from airport to east side of Bozeman and in between. The must have been busy adding towers

I bought my sales team Ipads 16Gb to see how they work for travel and customer presentations

The web, email and CRM functions are fantastic.we have Verizon mifi cards for use with our laptops, and the Ipads connect to them wirelessly so we don't need to buy another contract

You can use the laptop and the Ipad on the MIFI ad they work well.

The popup touchscreen keyboard takes a day or two to get used to it, but after that you are pretty much touch typing with your hands in the Same position as a regular keyboard. He ad does support Bluetooth keyboards so i can use my laptop keyboard too.

Russ (Jim too)

Print n share app allows you to print a document From an ipxd to a Bluetooth, networked , or 3G edge accessible printer of your choice

Catigale wrote: Print n share app allows you to print a document From an ipxd to a Bluetooth, networked , or 3G edge accessible printer of your choice

Cool. I will check that out. We now have a wireless printer in the house so I will give that a try.

Thanks.

Jim

Oh yeah.....fair warning or tethering ... Aka using your cell phone as a portall pot access the Internet... You have to read the fineprint in your contract to make sure you don't incur massive data charges on your plan before you do this.

Also, you have to understand that when phone maker X says you can tether the phone to the your computer on network Y, network Y may or may not choose to let you do this.

The blogs are full of people whining about how they can't get free Internet promised by
Their phone manufacturer.

To pitch the Verizon MiFi a bit...I've found it's a cool solution for me with a home office, a remote office, heavy travel, Admiral who travels 5%, and Grandma around the corner.

Instead ofi having 5 Internet bills, i am down to 1 !!!!

I bought the iPad and it's sucks just enough for me to continue to use it...as a kindle. But there are some good parts to it, so all is not lost. I opt'd for only the "wifi' version, reason being that I wanted to choose the data service. Verizon is on the cusp of releasing data devices for their new 4G "LTE" wifi service. A 4G Android will share it's bandwidth with 5 other devices, making my Macbook Pro available as well. Theoretical 5megs up and 10 megs down. That boils down to 500 Kilobytes up and 1 Megabyte down. It's always nicer to talk about bits when you can't provide sweet numbers for bytes. Huge Diff.

iPad, iphone, and itouch users enjoy living in the prison of applications allowed by Jobs. The Warden probes the fences and shoots violators. The Droid is the prison break that Jobs can't make money from. Already the Droid has surpassed iPhone sales in the last year, second in all time to the iPhone. Yeah, the iphone is nice...says the prisoners on deathrow. Freedom rings in the conversations you'll have with Droid users.

I wouldn't toss the 400.00 at the iPad unless you want a kindle too. Applications for the iPad are still on the rise, but already surpassed by driod apps. But I don't own a droid yet , so only take my word for my 2 cents.

Found this GPS Dock while looking for sea clear nav soft ware
http://www.gpscity.ca/buzz/2010/01/dual ... touch.html
I think Dual is head quarterd in Florida
they may have something for the ipad

Wouldn't the ipad gps work off triangulation off the cell phone towers and not true satellite gps, therefore not as accurate and not usable as a nav. device when out of tower ranges?