Squeee!

[selenay]

I've just pushed the order button on my iPad :-DDD

I've saved well, so I had the money to go rather top of the range: 64GB with 3G.

In addition, I've got a blue Smart Cover, the extra (longer) charging cable and a wireless keyboard. Plus, obviously, AppleCare just in case.

Over on another website, I've ordered a pale blue sleeve to keep it in.

So excited!

It will arrive next week, but Mum is under instructions to keep it hidden until my birthday as it's my present to myself this year.

There may have been some playing with iPads at Best Buy yesterday to confirm which one I wanted :-) And to get a good look at things like the comic app on a nice big screen. And stuff. I'm insanely excited about this :-D

The next eighteen days are going to be torture for everyone around me.

Comments

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Ooh, exciting. Hope you managed to survive eighteen days before playing with it ;)

[selenay]

:-D

[sugoll.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm sure you're going to love it. I love mine.

I'll be interested to hear whether you end up using the 3G and/or sleeve; I find the smart cover quite sufficient, and decided to opt of Personal Hotspot on the iPhone rather than another 3G monthly tariff. Occasionally, that's a pain, but not often.

I'm vicariously excited on your behalf.

[selenay]

I have a very, very simple, cheap pay as you go phone so I don't have a 3G tariff of any kind. There's a plan from Bell that starts at $5 a month and gradually ramps up to a max of $35 depending on how much data you use. So I figure that will be what I go with. If I barely use it outside wifi hotspots, I'll pay a low amount and if I need to use it more one month then my bill will be higher.

I'm also hopefully going to be able to swap out the SIM to use a one month UK one when I'm visiting, but we'll see.

It will mean that I'll at least be able to email Mum from the hospital the next time I have an emergency admission *sigh*

The sleeve...we'll see. I don't feel happy just chucking it in my bag when I'm out and about (in case of damage) and I'm worried in case I drop it. I'll report in :-)

I'm very excited. 17 days!

[gmul.livejournal.com]

I've been giving some out at one of my jobs recently. Shiny! The magnetic cover thing is very clever (in theory, not sure if there's a cunning flaw that only shows up later).

I presume you're primed to also hide anything else that comes from Amazon in the next couple of weeks? And you've not got your wishlist hidden?

[selenay]

Apparently there is a security flaw with the cover if you leave it out where thieves can play with it (there is a way to get back into a password protected machine and use the last-used app), but I'd question the sense of leaving an iPad around for thieves to do that with myself.

It's very shiny, though :-) And I do like the cover.

I'm primed to hide anything that comes from Amazon - Mum is probably going to be going to the mailbox before I can get to it each day in order to hide things :-) My wishlist is open for viewing and I've been making sure that it's up to date.

{{{hugs}}}

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