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- Best iPad 2 data plans for UK buyers
- Vodafone offers cheapest £199 iPad 2 contract deal yet
- Orange offering iPad 2 for £199, with two-year contract
- Gary Marshall: Happy tenth birthday, Mac OS X
| Best iPad 2 data plans for UK buyers Posted: 24 Mar 2011 09:36 AM PDT  Looking for the best iPad 2 data tariff? Look no further - we're collating details on the iPad 2 data deals from the major UK networks as we get them. iPad 2 on Orange Orange is offering its customers the iPad 2 3G for £199 if you sign up for a two-year contract. The offer is for the 16GB 3G iPad 2, and the £25 per month data package consists of 1GB of anytime data plus another 1GB of data from midnight to 4pm. iPad 2 on Vodafone Like Orange, Vodafone is to sell the new Apple iPad 2 to its existing customers for £199, again for those willing to sign up to a two-year deal. The £199 offer is for the 16GB 3G iPad 2, with customers paying a monthly subscription of £24.50. Data-wise, this package consists of a monthly data allowance of 2GB, plus 1GB of Wi-Fi access through BT OpenZone. Additional data is charged at £15 per GB. For new customers the iPad 2 price is £229 for the 16GB 3G model with a monthly tariff of £27.
Full Vodafone iPad tariffs as shown above can be found on the Vodafone site. iPad 2 on T-Mobile T-Mobile has announced its subsidised iPad 2 pricing - stating that you'll be able to pick up the next-gen Apple device for £199 if you're already a customer of the network. If you're signing up as a new customer, the price goes up to £229. For that, you'll be getting the 16GB iPad 2, and you'll be signing up for a two-year data plan which is £25 a month for existing T-Mobilers and £2 more for new customers. This buys you 1GB of data a month, plus 1GB to use in T-Mobile's declared "quiet time" of 12am - 10am. So, as an existing customer your total outlay over the two years would be £799 and as a new member of the T-Mobile club, it would be £877. If you do want to take the T-Mobile plunge, T-Mobile will be taking orders online and on the phone from 5pm on 25 March iPad 2 on O2 O2 is not offering any deals on the iPad 2, although the operator is offering a data package. O2 iPad 2 tariffs are as follows: Daily - 24 hours; £2.04; 200MB data Monthly - 30 days; £10.21 recurring; 1GB data Monthly - 30 days; £15.32 recurring; 2GB data Customers can also add 500MB of data as a one-off amount if they are within a recurring data plan. iPad 2 on Three We're waiting to hear back from Three on its iPad 2 data tariffs. iPad 2 from Apple Apple's pricing for the iPad 2 is as follows Prices are, including VAT: Wi-Fi only: Wi-Fi and 3G: Those compare to prices last year respectively of £429, £499, £599, £529, £599 and £699. Calculating the differences, the retail (with VAT) price has fallen by between 4% and 7%, with the average being 5%; the ex-VAT price (the one you would normally compare against the US price) has fallen by between 5% and 9%, averaging 7.4%. |
| Vodafone offers cheapest £199 iPad 2 contract deal yet Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:16 AM PDT  Vodafone has revealed that it is to sell the new Apple iPad 2 to its existing customers for £199, for those willing to sign up to a two-year deal. The £199 offer is for the lowest-spec 3G-capable 16GB iPad 2, with customers paying a monthly subscription of £24.50. The Vodafone iPad 2 package consists of a monthly data allowance of 2GB, plus a BT Openzone Wi-Fi allowance of 1GB. Mayhem on Regent Street Customers will pay £15 per extra 1GB out of bundle, should they exceed their monthly data limit. The iPad 2 UK launch date is set to 5pm tomorrow. Expect the usual mayhem around Apple Stores across the country around that time. Apple's flagship store in Regent Street, in particular, is sure to be mobbed – which should prove to be interesting, as it coincides with rush-hour on one of London's busiest shopping parades! See more info on the new Apple tablet in our iPad 2 review. If you are not fussed about signing up for a 3G data plan with a mobile operator, then you might want to know that the iPad 2's UK price is £399 for the WiFi only 16GB version, and £499 for the 3G 16GB version. Other prices are as follows: 32GB Wi-Fi only at £479, 64GB Wi-Fi only at £559, 64GB Wi-Fi + 3G at £659 and 32GB Wi-Fi + 3G at £579. |
| Orange offering iPad 2 for £199, with two-year contract Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:23 AM PDT  Orange has emailed its customers with an offer for the iPad 2 3G which will customers who are willing to sign up to a two year deal pay just £199 for the latest tablet. The offer is for the 16GB 3G version of the iPad, and the £25 per month data package consists of 1GB of anytime data plus another gig of data between midnight to 4pm. The iPad 2 UK launch date is set to 5pm tomorrow, with the usual queues expected at not only Apple stores across the country, but also other retailer that have got their mitts on the latest tablet. Raises the bar The early indications are that the tablet deserves to be a popular product, with TechRadar's Apple iPad 2 review suggesting that it raises the bar for the host of competitors. The 9.7 inch tablet runs Apple's iOS 4.3, and takes advantage of the popular App Store with its 60,000+ applications. The iPad 2's UK price is £399 for the WiFi only 16GB version, with the 3G 16GB version priced at £499. Other models are priced as follows: 32GB Wi-Fi only at £479, 64GB Wi-Fi only at £559, 64GB Wi-Fi + 3G at £659 and 32GB Wi-Fi + 3G at £579. |
| Gary Marshall: Happy tenth birthday, Mac OS X Posted: 24 Mar 2011 02:10 AM PDT  Apple had a pretty good 2001. Its iMacs were selling well and the flat-panel iMac was in the lab. It unveiled a wee music thing it called the iPod. It invited ridicule by planning to open its own shops. And it shipped the first desktop version of Mac OS X. Cheetah, as it was codenamed, was a revelation. Where operating systems were packed with unpleasantness, almost painful to look and and apparently designed specifically to go wrong at the worst possible moment, OS X was lickably pretty, a delight to use and utterly reliable. I'm not being funny about the lickable thing, by the way: that was one of Apple's design goals. Steve Jobs wanted an interface that, when you saw it, "you wanted to lick it." It's a sign of just how good the design was that, despite a few wrong turns into places such as The Land of Brushed Metal, OS X still looks fresh today. The Aqua interface was gorgeous, but OS X was still a pretty big gamble. Rather than do a Microsoft and tweak its existing operating system to keep existing customers happy, Mac OS X was a clean-slate job, a whole new platform. Backwards compatibility was maintained for a while via Classic mode, but the message was clear: Apple's future was X-shaped. Apple gambled and won. Nobody's asking whether OS X will thrive any more; the only cloud hanging over the platform is whether there are any cats left for OS X to name itself after. Lion eyes OS X has proved remarkably adaptable. It jumped from PowerPC chips to Intel ones with hardly a hiccup, and it provided the base for the all-conquering iOS. Meanwhile the forthcoming OS X Lion has some interesting ideas under its mane. We already know about the "Back to the Mac" approach of iOS-style full screen apps, applications auto-saving and resuming and so on. But did you know it's ready for the end of the optical drive and of the hard disk too? That's what Cult of Mac appears to have spotted, anyway. The new Recovery HD partition means you won't need an installation disk if OS X goes wrong on your next Mac - and with apps coming via the App Store and, eventually, iTunes and/or MobileMe becoming cloud-based, that means Macs don't need optical disks at all (although I suspect consumer models will keep the SuperDrives for some time for CD and DVD ripping). Factor in TRIM support, which stops solid-state drives from getting too messy, and you've got an operating system that's just waiting for the disk-free future. The way we use computers is in transition, and I think OS X Lion is in transition too: it's getting ready for a kind of computing where we don't use optical disks, where software comes as apps and where we flick where we used to click. We're used to it on smartphones, and on tablets; eventually we'll be used to it on computers too. It'd be fitting if the same firm who popularised point and click was also the firm to bury it. Happy birthday, OS X. I can't wait to see what you do next. |
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