Hi all

I know I’ll get the answer from here, my wife and best friend are going to NY in December and I want (her best friend) to get (my missus) an ipad. Save £100 on the purchase price brings it to chrimbo prez level.

Question is this. What are the pitfalls ? I only want a wifi version, so 3G’ness is not going to be an issue, I guess it will have a US charger, but I assume with changing the pluggie in the wall bit, that should work. But is there other potential problems ? I have a house full of Australian television and DVD equipment that doesn’t work over here, I don’t want the same problemo with this bad boy !!

Any thoughts chaps and chappettes ??

Sean

As I understand it, there’s no difference between US and UK ipads (other than the wall plug). Personally, I’d wait for ipad 2.0 though 🙂

Any clues as to when that will be released ?

rumours/Apple past behaviour suggest Spring sometime

I bought my ipad in US – works perfectly. I just use my iphone charger – all good.

Btw most electronic chargers can handle any input voltage from 110-240V, so you’ll only need a travel adapter. However SOME in the US are 110V only, like the Garmin one that IanB blew up by plugging it in here with an adapter.

You can however easily get adapters that step the voltage down from Maplin for a few quid.

In theory you would have to declare it and pay some taxes etc on bringing it back to the UK wouldn’t you?

In theory you would have to declare it

Yes in theory you would………..but why would you?

‘in theory’ that would make customs wonder what you’re trying to cover up by being honest about an iPad and you and your luggage would get unwarranted attention.

Works fine, a few people at work have them, bought on a trip to the US just after they came out.

Just what I want to hear ! Thanks groovers. Love your work.

S

Yes in theory you would………..but why would you?

As long as you’re comfortable with tax evasion (which most on here seem to be) then yes, why would you?

If you bought it at duty free in the airport, then you’d have no issue with declaring it plus you’d have a valid UK warranty and it would only be about £60 more than if you bought it in the US.

As long as you’re comfortable with tax evasion

very comfortable thanks, cant see GB PLC going under for that.

3G works fine here too – just get a free sim from o2 or orange.

power – you can plug a UK figure-of-8 cable into the apple charger rather than using a travel adaptor.

My charger is a wall wart with a USB connection into it – so a US-UK adaptor would see you right.