Apple is now allowing customers to pre-order any of the six iPad models starting today. The three Wi-Fi models will arrive on on April 3rd, the 3G models will arrive in late April. Fortune predicts that as many as 50,000 iPads were pre-ordered in the first two hours of being able to do so.
Apple has also shed more light on the 3G cellular service for the device and how it works. As reported at the launch of the iPad in January, customers can purchase 250MB of data for $14.99 a month, and unlimited data for $29.99 a month. Before now however, it wasn’t clear how this would be handled. With Apple’s new information, it shows that consumers can activate and deactivate their service (in monthly blocks) from the iPad at anytime.
You can check your data usage in Settings on your iPad anytime. And iPad will even let you know when you’re running out. You’ll get three alerts as you near your 250MB limit — at 20 percent, 10 percent, and zero. With each alert, you can choose to add more data or wait and do it later. Tap Now and iPad opens the Cellular Data Plan window so you can update your data plan.
Here is an image of one of the panels where you can manage your data.
Within this preferences panel you can change plans or cancel at any time. That means a users reaching their 250MB limit could switch to the unlimited plan on the fly. Lastly, users will be prompted with 20%, 10%, and 0% warnings when reaching their 250MB limit.
For what it’s worth, I ordered the low-end 16GB Wi-Fi only model. Did you pre-order an iPad, what do you think? Leave a comment!
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