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I wouldn’t mind heaving one for the times they do service work on my internet. I am a night hawk and it usually overnight but it would be nice to be able to have a little larger device than my phone for internet usag.
When traveling, I’ll use either my iPhone or iPad Pro for GPS. I have one of the original grandfathered unlimited plans for my iPad. I like the freedom of just being able to use it fully when away from WiFi.
Yes it’s true. Weather information, manuals, approach plates all are in the iPad. Cellular gives real time information on the ground prior to takeoff
Having cellular made a long cable internet outage livable.
Yes, that’s true, but then I’d have to charge two dead batteries.
I have never had a cellular iPad, but every where I might go with my iPad I also have my iPhone. So i just turn on the hot spot and run with that.
Not if you are like me and have a limited data plan On your phone. My power was out several hours yesterday morning. Cellular iPads were great and I have a bunch of big external battery packs in case outages last for several days.
A few years ago, the iPad’s hot spot capability was put to the test and it was determined if one doesn’t activate the iPad’s screen or do anything else with it, the battery has enough juice to provide about 24 hours of hot spot capabilities.
My AT&T data plans do not allow hotspot capability. They are not on my phone plan, they are on standalone data plans.
I was USING them, not hot spotting with them, and power was projected to be out for 18 hours so external batteries would have been needed at some point had the power not come on after about 6 hours, much earlier than expected.
What AT&T plan do you have? I have a generic plan with <10GB/mo for 3 people and all of the data is available for tethering. No devices currently being paid off or anything, only playing for the service.
The AT&T Unlimited for iPad plans don't allow for hotspot.
The individual eSIM AT&T prepaid monthly plan for $34.99/month, supposedly unlimited, but I seldom use a ton of data. There are a couple of months when I may (deer season, November-January).
I'm a huge fan of cellular, but it's only really good if you plan on taking your iPad along on journeys that entail there being no Wi-Fi network that you can hop onto and/or if you don't need Internet functionality.
For this reason, I find that it's most useful on an iPad mini. Most will scoff at that as it's not too much bigger than the larger end of smartphones, though, the size difference is still substantial and there are many benefits to it NOT being a phone, but still being highly portable.
If I were buying, I'd say get cellular with a mini, but don't bother if it's anything larger, unless you are apt to find yourself someplace where you don't have Wi-Fi, but need Internet access. Many will say that the solution to that is tethering, but that can wear out your phone's cellular hardware over time. Plus, you can get unlimited data on tablets now whereas I don't believe there is any tethering plan that will let you tether out unlimited amounts of data.