2012年3月21日星期三

GarageBand were also released at the same time

Less than 24 hours after purchasing the Verizon Wireless version of the iPad + 4G — and choosing a $30, 2GB monthly burberry ties data plan from Verizon — I was shocked by the notification on my iPad's screen: "There is no data remaining on your current plan."

My remaining options for the month included changing to a $50 5GB data plan or an $80 10GB plan. (AT&T offers a 250MB plan for $14.99; 3GB for $30; and 5GB for $50.)

I was all too aware that you can consume gobs of data while streaming a movie say on Verizon or AT&T's speedy 4G LTE data networks. Heck, you can use up your entire monthly allowance watching an hour of high-definition video.

You can also stream video on a 3G connection, and that same movie carries the same amount of data no matter how it is being delivered. The difference is that 4G provides a far superior viewing experience, without the hiccups and starts and stops that might make you give up on movie watching or certain other activities burberry handbags outlet under 3G. And 4G LTE loads data faster than on the pokier networks. (Verizon claims that 4G downloads 10 times faster than 3G.) So by its very nature, 4G encourages you to do more — and ultimately spend more.

In my case, I wasn't watching video. What nailed me, I think, is that I was wirelessly downloading a number of the apps that I had already purchased for my older iPad onto the latest model. Those apps were made available through Apple's iCloud.

To help avoid just this situation, the new iPad has a 50MB per app download limit on 4G. Anything over that, and you're directed to Wi-Fi. (The over-the-air download limit on 3G-capable iPads was 20MB.) But that's a per-app limit, and all those smaller-sized apps I was moving to the new iPad collectively added up.

AT&T declined to comment for this story. In an e-mail, Verizon advised to "Use Wi-Fi to help extend the life burberry sneakers women of your data plan. With so many people having Wi-Fi in their homes and the increasing availability of Wi-Fi in public areas, customers should plan their data use in context of taking advantage of the Wi-Fi capability on 4G LTE tablets."

That's fine in theory. But the whole purpose of choosing a 4G iPad, which starts at $629 compared with the entry price of $499 for Wi-Fi-only models, is that you want it for precisely those instances when Wi-Fi is out of reach.

If there's a positive, it's that iPad data plans on AT&T and Verizon are prepaid. You can select only what you think you'll need. Because there's no contract, as is the norm with cellphones, you can easily add on or cancel data plans right from the iPad as often as you need to. Tap Settings and Cellular Data on the iPad to do just that.

The iPad almost always defaults to a Wi-Fi connection when available. But to make sure you won't get hit by cellular charges, turn off Cellular Data within Ray ban sunglasses Settings when you don't need it. You also have the option to shut down LTE.

Apple's iPhoto is pretty popular. The company's latest iOS app, released alongside the new iPad earlier this month, hit one million users a little over a week after turning up on the App Store, according to The Loop.

And that's unique users, not just downloads, the blog hastened to add.

"It's quite possible that one user downloaded the app multiple times, but Apple isn't counting those, only the unique users," reported The Loop's Jim Dalrymple, who said Apple had supplied the user figures for Oakley sunglasses the new photo manipulation and sharing app with the blog on Wednesday.

The app, part of Apple's iLife mobile software suite, costs $4.99 to download from Apple's App Store. Since it's a brand new app, that means Apple is actually ringing up close to five bucks for every iPhoto download from the App Store. New $4.99 versions of iMovie and GarageBand were also released at the same time, but they're being offered as free upgrades to prior owners.

Putting the pace at which users are going for the new iPhoto in perspective, an estimated 12 million copies of Rovio's hugely popular Angry Birds for iOS have been purchased from the App Store since the game's debut in December 2009.

So what's so great about iPhoto? PCMag's lead software and Web applications analyst Michael Muchmore put the app through its paces recently, describing it as "a stunner." Muchmore was particularly pleased with the simple use of multi-touch gestures for photo correction and brushes for applying effects onto specific areas burberry sunglasses of a photo, as well as the addition of easy photo-sharing capabilities in iPhoto, which can feed images directly into Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, as well as through email and via Apple's own iCloud.

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