Above you see two iPads, pictures of which are grabbed direct from Apple’s own pages. Can you spot the difference? Of course you can. The one on the right is the Wi-Fi-only iPad. The one on the left has 3G, and a plastic strip to let the radio-waves in and out. It’s the very opposite of a tin-foil hat.
Owners of the iPhone 3G and newer may not be familiar with this escape hatch for radiation — the entire back of your cellphone is a spectrum-transparent plastic. The original iPhone, and all iPod Touches, sport this strip. What is a surprise is that the Wi-Fi-only iPad doesn’t have this plastic part. Presumably the Wi-Fi needs to get in somewhere.
Apart from its core functionality, this strip serves one other purpose: a badge. If you are nerdy trainspotters like us, you will enjoy identifying exact models of gadgets from afar. This plastic marker will only make that easier.
iPad Gallery [Apple]
Cosmetic Differences in iPad 3G vs iPad Wi-Fi [MacRumors]
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