Operators enter the iPad 2 war. Not only do they offer dedicated rates for the Apple tablet with a microSIM card or the option of forking the connection that we have on the smartphone to use it simultaneously on the iPad, but they also offer the latest edition of the ingenuity that those of Cupertino.
In this sense, the French-based operator Orange is jumping on the bandwagon started by Vodafone and is already offering the iPad 2 as a grant formula. What does this mean? Simply that we can save a few euros by taking the iPad 2 at a slightly cheaper price than if we did it in the distributors that until now sold the tablet.
Of course: you will have to commit to conditions stipulated by Orange. To begin with, you will have to stay with the company for a couple of years, also subscribing a mobile Internet rate that, depending on the price and associated data, will leave us the edition of the iPad 2 that we want to take at one price or another.
In all cases, the iPad 2 that we take with us will be the model with Wi-Fi and 3G (something logical, since the terminal must be linked to a data rate). The cheapest option is the 16 GB one, which will not cost 320 or 420 euros, depending on the rate we hire (Internet Everywhere 39, with five GB of associated data and 46 euros of monthly cost, or Internet Everywhere 23, which carries a GB of data and costs 27 euros, respectively).
Following this relationship, the iPad 2 with 32 GB of internal memory will be worth between 420 and 520 euros, depending on the contracted data, and the edition with 64 GB will require an outlay of between 520 and 620 euros, following the same criteria. In other words a little simpler: Orange is going to subsidize between 180 and 280 euros all 3G versions of the iPad 2.
The rates of Vodafone for the same terminal are quite similar, although they are slightly cheaper for data rates associated higher (barely 2 0 euros of savings in the device for monthly mobile Internet at a higher price) and a slightly more expensive if we talk about the connection options that involve a lower outlay month by month for the user.
