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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Is wifi enough for a tablet or do you need 3G for a tablet in China?
I'm looking to buy, but ones that use 3G are more $$$
10 years 39 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
I've always been using wifi ones and for my needs, that's been enough. There's Wifi access in most public places these days (in Beijing anyway) so unless you need to access the web 24 hours a day at obscure locations, you can save yourself the extra money.
It depends a lot on your usage pattern and where you are.
Here in town, usable free wifi is scarce. Unless you want to be chained down at Burger King and Star Bucks you're out of luck.
You will of course have wifi at home, you ca surf etc there. If you have both tablet and phone you can use the phones 3G on the tablet (provided it is not some iApple thing that doesn't allow it's users to use the products they have paid such a high cost for)
yeah it depends on your usage pattern. and most Android phones allow you to share your 3G network as a hotspot. btw ,how much is the price difference ?I saw one kinds of 3G routers with battery inside on 360buy. it's less than 200Yuan. this is one example of them.
http://m.jd.com/product/785476.html?resourceType=list&resourceValue=1098
if you sit long times at the airport or in a taxi then yeah 3G is definitly useful.
For small runs you still can tether your phone and can use "wifi" on your tab, but its freaking slow
not like the 3G internet is any fast here in china... no fun to surf in the internet
YES go for a 3g Tablet and get this service in China, I always have 24/7 3G at little cost with this service:
36GB年卡/3G无线上网卡(不含卡体) 赠送300元购物卡 7.2M/s高速上网
Get a smartphone. Share the phone's 3G connection as WiFi.
Connect on tablet.
Save $100.