Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] iPad Air 2 and Verizon

I'd not do that. For me, the wifi/cell combination is a necessity, not a luxury. Cell for when there's no wifi, and non-tethered wifi whenever possible.

When I picked up my iPhone 6+, I neglected to turn off the cell during the restore and accidentally used up nearly 5GB of my plan's 10GB limit. Cell, for me, is always a fallback choice.

On Oct 25, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Well, my iPad Air 2 arrived yesterday and I let it run overnight while
> it downloaded all my apps from the cloud where I had backed up my "old" iPad 2 a couple of days ago. That went perfectly. Then it asked me if I wanted to set up my cellular service and gave me three choices - none of which was Verizon, my carrier!! A search on apple.com told me to contact Verizon. Verizon said they don't have the card yet!!! Would have been nice to have known that before I ordered!!!

Has anyone here tried the idea of buying a Wifi-only iPad with the intention of pairing it with their iPhone/Hotspot if they want to utilize cellular connectivity?

I find I don't use much of my iPad's cellular limit for downloading stuff *for* the iPad; when I check how much data allowance is left 2-3 weeks into the month, and find MOST of it, I may use the iPad as a Hotspot to download a large file for the Mac.

I'm considering, when upgrade time comes, getting a Wifi model and using the money I'm not spending for its data plan to pay for a larger data plan for the iPhone instead.

Of course, cellular capability also comes with GPS capability, so I would lose that with the upgrade this way — unless even the Wifi-only models have GPS now…

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Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@icloud.com