Apple: iPad 3G Delivered April 30th
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It’s official: Apple says that the 3G iPad will drop onto doormats country-wide on April 30th, just ten days from today. If you pre-ordered the cellular model for in-store pick-up, you get it the same day, although you’ll have to wait until 5PM until Apple will actually give it to you.
We knew that the delivery date would be “late April”, and this is about as late as Apple could manage short of delivering on the stroke of midnight. That 5PM time-slot is rather odd, too. The Wi-Fi only iPad was available for pick-up as soon as stores opened, not at the end of the working day.
In fact, doing anything newsworthy on a Friday evening is usually a way to silence media chatter for a full weekend. In this case, it might just be a way to help AT&T’s notoriously creaky network. You can be sure that pretty much every buyer of the new 3G iPad will be firing up the cellular access as soon as they get the machine. As this is done straight from the iPad with an as-yet untested new procedure, laying off the network until the end of the business day might give the telco the break it needs.
iPad Wi-Fi + 3G Models Available in US on April 30 [Apple Press Release]
See Also:
- iPad Pre-Orders Now Shipping
- New iPad 3G Orders Pushed Back to May 7th
- Apple Details Super-Simple iPad 3G Data Sign-Up
- Apple Delays International iPad Launch Until 'End of May'
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