Who has an iPad, what model and what do you use for internet access?

[J_is_my_initial]

Originally Posted by jencar98

Deb, do you know if Nooks and other tablets offer the same apps as the ipad? My DIL is looking at ipads for use in nursing school. After shopping some, I'm wondering if she needs the ipad or if another brand tablet would work as well?

My brother tried to talk me into buying an ipad. After looking at the features I wanted (reading and games mostly) I decided on a kindle fire. I can get so many apps and free reading. I can use it outside as my wifi reaches most of my yard. A lot of places I go such as dr offices and hospitals also have free wifi. If not available, i play games or read. It was a lot less and I love it.

[Patti]

When Ken first got sick he wanted to get an IPad. He never used a computer before so I was surprised he wanted one. He bought the one with the wi if and 3G and the highest gb I think it's 64. When we got home he said I can't believe you thought I bought this for me I don't even know how to use a computer. He handed it to me and said i bought it for you because you deserve it for taking care of me. Within a few days he started fooling around with it and loved it. He was down loading music, buying games, surfing the net and had pictures on it. It was great when he was getting treatment we would both use it. Now I keep it by me all the time. I read books on it all the time. I've never used the 3G but its nice to have in case I want it for a month at a time. I bought a card reader for it nd just put my camera card in it and download pictures. I really like having it but still use my Mac laptop most of the time.

[capt_noonie]

OMG so everyone has one but me! LOL

Anyway, this will be used mainly at work as a second computer. It'll be little easier showing customers pics from the internet without them having to come back behind the counter where we are also. We have an extra wireless modem that I remembered we have, so my brother is going to take a look at in on Fri and see if we can use that. In that case, we will get the cheaper one without the 4G. We do have two laptops here at work already, but the modem we currently use is set up for one computer only. And the older laptop doesn't have wifi, so we would still have to get something, and an ipad is cheaper than another laptop, even a used one (we are partial to Apple products anyway).

Another thing we were suggested by one of the stores we went to was to get the Clear wireless wifi thing. BIL has it, but it's $40 something/month plus you have to buy the modem. Since we already have the extra wireless one, this may save us some money.

Anyone have any apps they absolutely love and would like to share?

[jadabug]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

OMG so everyone has one but me! LOL

Anyway, this will be used mainly at work as a second computer. It'll be little easier showing customers pics from the internet without them having to come back behind the counter where we are also. We have an extra wireless modem that I remembered we have, so my brother is going to take a look at in on Fri and see if we can use that. In that case, we will get the cheaper one without the 4G. We do have two laptops here at work already, but the modem we currently use is set up for one computer only. And the older laptop doesn't have wifi, so we would still have to get something, and an ipad is cheaper than another laptop, even a used one (we are partial to Apple products anyway).

Another thing we were suggested by one of the stores we went to was to get the Clear wireless wifi thing. BIL has it, but it's $40 something/month plus you have to buy the modem. Since we already have the extra wireless one, this may save us some money.

Anyone have any apps they absolutely love and would like to share?

and me

[Ellie May]

I have an iPad 2 refurb.
Don't regret saving the $100 on a refurb bc I still got a warranty.
Mine is Wifi ony. I didn't want to pay the extra hudred for internet plus the monthly fee. Most everywhere I go has wireless anyway.

Didn't love at first. It has totally grown on me though. I love it bc of the size, no mouse, gaming, pulling up slides for school, surfing. Keyboard is annoying. I like a real keyboard. But I wouldn't use a wireless keyboard with it bc I figure that is what my laptop is for. Photos and dicuments and such..it is not intuitive o download/upload.. In fact, I really still haven't felt like learning how.

iBooks and Kindle apps are available. I use both. Drawback is that it is not great for reading outside... Pandora is nice and can run in the background. Penultimate is cool. Netflix/abc vids/mind map apps/vet apps. I mostly surf and type one fingered on forums. lol. Got it for school.laptops are too loud and too big for lecture halls and their battery life is nothing. Lack of Flash has been a problem, but I guess rhere is an app for that.

[BiewerYorkie]

This is my third iPad. It is a 64gb New iPad. I love to have the latest and greatest of anything technical.

I have had 3 iPhones but got a Windows Phone last month instead. I have unlimited data and texting. Believe it or not, I was sick of the iPhone.

As far as the iPad, in my opinion it is worth every penny. I bought this one when I retired. My gift to myself.

Louise

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by Ellie May

I have an iPad 2 refurb.
Don't regret saving the $100 on a refurb bc I still got a warranty.
Mine is Wifi ony. I didn't want to pay the extra hudred for internet plus the monthly fee. Most everywhere I go has wireless anyway.

Didn't love at first. It has totally grown on me though. I love it bc of the size, no mouse, gaming, pulling up slides for school, surfing. Keyboard is annoying. I like a real keyboard. But I wouldn't use a wireless keyboard with it bc I figure that is what my laptop is for. Photos and dicuments and such..it is not intuitive o download/upload.. In fact, I really still haven't felt like learning how.

iBooks and Kindle apps are available. I use both. Drawback is that it is not great for reading outside... Pandora is nice and can run in the background. Penultimate is cool. Netflix/abc vids/mind map apps/vet apps. I mostly surf and type one fingered on forums. lol. Got it for school.laptops are too loud and too big for lecture halls and their battery life is nothing. Lack of Flash has been a problem, but I guess rhere is an app for that.

This is what has bothered me the most so far. I guess there are ways around it, but still.

Do other tablets have usb or none of them have it?

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by BiewerYorkie

This is my third iPad. It is a 64gb New iPad. I love to have the latest and greatest of anything technical.

I have had 3 iPhones but got a Windows Phone last month instead. I have unlimited data and texting. Believe it or not, I was sick of the iPhone.

As far as the iPad, in my opinion it is worth every penny. I bought this one when I retired. My gift to myself.

Louise

Do you feel the extra Gb are really worth it? Do you take lots of pics or have lots of ebooks? Or what made you decide to get the 64?

[bchgirl]

Originally Posted by jencar98

Deb, do you know if Nooks and other tablets offer the same apps as the ipad? My DIL is looking at ipads for use in nursing school. After shopping some, I'm wondering if she needs the ipad or if another brand tablet would work as well?

My sil has a tablet from samsung...it literally does everything my iPad does at half the cost. Actually hers does more. I can't take photos.

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by backwardsrain

They say an ipad mini is coming out in the next few months. I'm looking forward to that and may get one...

I heard the same thing. Most likely will be cheaper too bc it's smaller. My bro says he thinks the ipad is too big to use it in bed or on the crapper so he suggested I wait for the smaller one, but we'd be mostly using this in the shop and not really on the go. We checked them out at the store. I couldn't really imagine it being any smaller.

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by bchgirl

My sil has a tablet from samsung...it literally does everything my iPad does at half the cost. Actually hers does more. I can't take photos.

I thought ipads had camera?!

[Ellie May]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

This is what has bothered me the most so far. I guess there are ways around it, but still.

Do other tablets have usb or none of them have it?

Not sure about USB on other tablets.

I'll have to try that app. Without it, no Hulu, no slides for one of my classes, etc.

camera is pretty low quality on the 2. Easy to view oics from sites and email..just not sure how to download and save them.

I got the 32GB. Had it since beginning of the year. Used just 3.7 so far. I have 3 eBooks, about ten games, a few study apps, videos apps, a few vet apps. Not a ton of stuff but a fair amount. I wouldn't waste my time with a 16GB.

Chose the iPad bc we are a Mac family for the most part. I really wanted Apple to back it bc our store is so amazing about fixing things.

At first I thought they were overpriced, but now not so much because I love how I can have sonething to replace my laptop 95% of the time that is so small..yet has a nice screen.

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by Ellie May

Not sure about USB on other tablets.

I'll have to try that app. Without it, no Hulu, no slides for one of my classes, etc.

camera is pretty low quality on the 2. Easy to view oics from sites and email..just not sure how to download and save them.

I got the 32GB. Had it since beginning of the year. Used just 3.7 so far. I have 3 eBooks, about ten games, a few study apps, videos apps, a few vet apps. Not a ton of stuff but a fair amount. I wouldn't waste my time with a 16GB.

Chose the iPad bc we are a Mac family for the most part. I really wanted Apple to back it bc our store is so amazing about fixing things.

At first I thought they were overpriced, but now not so much because I love how I can have sonething to replace my laptop 95% of the time that is so small..yet has a nice screen.

Oh I think I remember seeing now the new one does have a better camera. I haven't really played around with it. I just kinda looked at them and picked them up and looked at the price. LOL

You think the 16G isn't enough? It's kind of hard to gauge how much you'd need on something you've never owned before. It's so funny how before when I was in school we used zip disks and they large ones held 250mb but the standard was 100mb, and we had these horribly slow Jaz drives that were 1 gb each disk and these diskes were huge! Now I have an old 2 gb flash drive that I can't even fill up, crazy!

[bchgirl]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

I thought ipads had camera?!

The first one did not. That's what I have and am perfect fully happy with it and chose not to "upgrade"

[BabyGirl Rosie]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

I thought ipads had camera?!

The Ipad 3 does have a camera.