I'm on my 3rd iPad (Original, then original mini & now carrier based Air).
Hands down the carrier Air is the best & most amazing of the three I've owned.
With the first two, clearly there was the wow factor, a deer in the headlights perspective. Now with the Air, not only did I know what I wanted, but how I wanted to use it (both at work productively as well as home for fun). The other thing is, the infrastructure now (apps, carrier network, web support) is catered to these devices.
Because I bought the Air through a carrier (T-Mobile), my up front cost was $50 and I just paid the first (prorated) bill of $63.
Looking back, the first two were wifi only, slower and cost me full price out of pocket whereas now I have a faster, thinner, much more widely useable iPad for 1/3 or less of the up front, out of pocket expense.
Sitting pretty here
_-TechnologyTwitt_-
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