Sunbelt Asia Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 If you don't care about paying hugely more than the list price nor the fact it's a first-gen product that will be much better in the second-generation, you can now get an Apple iPad 3G in Thailand. * iPad 3G/Wi-Fi (16GB) Price: 35,000 Baht * iPad 3G/Wi-Fi (32GB) Price: 40,000 Baht * iPad 3G/Wi-Fi (64GB) Price: 43,000 Baht Prices for the Wi-Fi only version: * iPad Wi-Fi (16GB) Price: 22,700 Baht * iPad Wi-Fi (32GB) Price: 26,700 Baht * iPad Wi-Fi (64GB) Price: 31,200 Baht Keep in mind you need to cut down a standard SIM to work in the 3G. Info (in Thai only) here: http://www.siampod.com/wp/2010/05/04/ipad-...market-thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLaughingMan Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 Thats ridiculous. It's only 3-4k baht more in the U.S for a 3g version but here 12k more on top of an already inflated price? Just so people know it is extremely easy to turn your iphone into a wifi modem to connect edge or 3g to the wifi only ipad (if your iphone is jailbroken) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 Just wait a few days... the grey market works very well here, in the end there'll be a ~4k baht premium just like on the WiFi model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negreanu Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 I thought it was common knowledge that the ipads are available at MBK. Price for 3G 16GB ipad is 28900 at mbk fyi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbit68 Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 (edited) I was at MKB yesterday. There was no iPad 3G available. I asked 10 stores or more. From where you got your information? The iPad Wi-Fi (32GB) I could bring down to 26000 Baht. Edited May 6, 2010 by hobbit68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negreanu Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 (edited) Try wave phone that was the price they gave me for the 16gb (28900thb that was 2 days ago and was the first batch they could get so very possibly out of stock already), they are there but limited quantities just now few more days they will be more choice certainly by monday. Mongkok / golden in HK has started to get them in big numbers now and that is usually where the MBK ones are sourced. There is also a couple of sellers on pantip.com who have them at premium prices. Thai guy brought a few 32gb's in from vegas but not open to offer price 35k. Edited May 6, 2010 by negreanu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Conners Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 They're available in Tukcom Pattaya (1st floor) too, prices from 25-29K depending on memory size. All 100% uncaged clean imports from Hong Kong (according to the shop owner). Am still not going to get into the Apple fold, just asked out of curiosity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 They're available in Tukcom Pattaya (1st floor) too, prices from 25-29K depending on memory size. All 100% uncaged clean imports from Hong Kong (according to the shop owner). Am still not going to get into the Apple fold, just asked out of curiosity Pretty good prices. Watch it, you may come over to the dark side yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anothertorres Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 that;'s ok, everyone knows you never buy the 1st generation of anything Apple makes. sit tight, 2nd gen should be here in a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLaughingMan Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 People that buy or dont buy a product/tool based on the logo on the box make me laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Conners Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 ^ Judging from your avatar you always laugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 (edited) People that buy or dont buy a product/tool based on the logo on the box make me laugh. Well there are such things as trust, and past experience. If a company makes products that fail, I won't buy from them in the future - to avoid disappointment. Likewise, if they make stuff that works, I buy from them. That's why I always buy Samsung and never LG. I have a few LG appliances that either broke or work badly. All my Samsung stuff works great. So this will most certainly influence future buying decisions. I also bought a Toyota based on reputation e.g. the logo only. Worked out well, zero trouble in the first 4 years of ownership. With Apple - well when they came out with a phone I knew I had to have it. Long history of obsessing over both design and usability meant it was going to be good, despite only having a touch screen and keypad which in 2007 seemed like a huge disadvantage. It exceeded all my expectations. Doesn't mean I'll buy all Apple products, but it does give me a certain bias. Edited May 7, 2010 by nikster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLaughingMan Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 ^ Judging from your avatar you always laugh No thats me being sarcastic and making light of my complete and utter depression. Sadman just doesnt have the same ring to it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintofsilence Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 For any Aussies here are the AUD prices to compare Prices for the iPad in Australia are as follows: Wi-Fi models: 16GB: $629 32GB: $759 64GB: $879 Wi-Fi + 3G models 16GB: $799 32GB: $928 64GB: $1049 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 Why would anyone pay a premium for a 1st gen product that is so clearly designed to make you buy it again next year when they add improvements - like a camera or a USB port or printing or... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negreanu Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 (edited) Why would anyone pay a premium for a 1st gen product that is so clearly designed to make you buy it again next year when they add improvements - like a camera or a USB port or printing or... So exactly when is the right time you buy something that you like and want to use? You wait for the 2nd generation or do u wait for the 3rd generation. I am usually a early adopter of all new technologies. Have I bought the 1st gen ipad - yes (And loving it) will i buy the 2nd generation - yes will i buy the 3rd generation - yes. I work hard so can afford to pay in my view not a high premium to have this or any other product i wish. If you can afford it and want it go buy it and enjoy it. There is never a good tie to buy any technology because tomorrow there will always be something better. Depends how you wish to live your life i guess. Edited May 9, 2010 by negreanu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 So exactly when is the right time you buy something that you like and want to use? You wait for the 2nd generation or do u wait for the 3rd generation. I'm pretty much an early adopter myself. But I refuse to buy something that is so obviously underendowed. I've used the iPad and it's a nice piece of gear, well built and beautiful. But, come on! Jobs didn't think people would want a videoconferencing camera? Or maybe to be able to make a phone call? Or to print out a page? Or to put photos in without first uploading them to iTunes? Nope. This gear just screams "BUSINESS PLAN." You admit you're willing to buy every iteration. Jobs loves fanbois like you. I do want a slate but I think I'll wait for one that is geared toward the consumer and not the balance sheet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 I am moving from Samsung to LG, on the other hand. Samsung stuff keeps on breaking on me, and their service center is pathetic. LG products by quality might not be any better than Samsung, but at least their service (Thonburi service center) is absolutely amazing. Really? Funny that Well I can only go by my own experience. In the words of my very wise ex-boss: Good customer service is worth more than good products. When things break and customers get no service, they won't come back. When stuff works, they think it's OK. But when stuff breaks and they receive great customer service, they love it more than the stuff that works. There were studies on it. It's that feeling of being taken care of... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 (edited) So exactly when is the right time you buy something that you like and want to use? You wait for the 2nd generation or do u wait for the 3rd generation. I'm pretty much an early adopter myself. But I refuse to buy something that is so obviously underendowed. I've used the iPad and it's a nice piece of gear, well built and beautiful. But, come on! Jobs didn't think people would want a videoconferencing camera? Or maybe to be able to make a phone call? Or to print out a page? Or to put photos in without first uploading them to iTunes? Nope. This gear just screams "BUSINESS PLAN." You admit you're willing to buy every iteration. Jobs loves fanbois like you. I do want a slate but I think I'll wait for one that is geared toward the consumer and not the balance sheet. There's a camera connection kit with which you can import photos directly. There's no front facing camera - apparently Apple didn't think the iPad needed to be the most amazing video phone ever. I don't know why really seems like a no-brainer. Wait... maybe they didn't get iChat ported in time? They'd want to have iChat, which has a really fantastic video conferencing function, leaps and bounds better than skype. Or maybe they found Skype / iChat with video would go through the battery in an hour. Encoding and encrypting video and audio is pretty CPU-intensive. A phone call? No I don't want to make a phone call from my iPad. That's where Apple shines - unlike most other companies they carefully manage features. Acer and others will thrown every ridiculous feature they can on their machines and then end up with unusable crap - many features, none of which work properly. Dammit I am still waiting for the USPS to deliver mine... anyone know where to get them and how much they are in Chiang Mai? I need 2 anyway (I think...) Edited May 9, 2010 by nikster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Acer and others will thrown every ridiculous feature they can on their machines and then end up with unusable crap - many features, none of which work properly. You know, the machines we choose to work with are such a personal decision, it's hard to say anything bad about who chooses what. I will say that, yes, some companies throw way too much crap on their gear. The nice thing about that is you don't have to use it all. I don't use a lot of the features on m Nexus One nor even on my HP laptop. The thing is, they're there if I want them. Or alternatives. On the iPad, there are just too many features, seemingly, intentionally left off. So users are paying a premium price for a bare bones system that demands you buy more and more. That Acer, when it comes out, will be a bargain price for fully fleshed out experience. One's not all bad, the other's not all good. I do hope you and your iPads are happy together. By the way, if I sound a bit pensive about this, it's because I was really planning to buy an iPad and I'm a long time Apple critic. I've always thought they built good gear but I've never liked being locked into their ecosystem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Sorry to post twice but somehow the last bit of my message was truncated. I was going to say Apple's decisions made me a bit sad since now I have to wait even longer to get something I really want. The JooJoo seems like a disaster. HP has pulled it's slate until they retool for Web OS (dropping Win 7 certainly seemed like a good idea to me) and other systems seem a way off, too. In the end, I'm glad I waited for the Nexus One rather than buy an iPhone. I hope, in the end, I will be glad I waited for something other than the iPad. Rumor has it Google is now working on one. But it took them so long to get the gPhone out and it seems they will be using Chrome as their OS instead of Android. I guess I'll just have to wait and see about that Acer Nikster promised... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negreanu Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Sorry to post twice but somehow the last bit of my message was truncated.I was going to say Apple's decisions made me a bit sad since now I have to wait even longer to get something I really want. The JooJoo seems like a disaster. HP has pulled it's slate until they retool for Web OS (dropping Win 7 certainly seemed like a good idea to me) and other systems seem a way off, too. In the end, I'm glad I waited for the Nexus One rather than buy an iPhone. I hope, in the end, I will be glad I waited for something other than the iPad. Rumor has it Google is now working on one. But it took them so long to get the gPhone out and it seems they will be using Chrome as their OS instead of Android. I guess I'll just have to wait and see about that Acer Nikster promised... Everyone loves to hate Apple. However everyone always does not highlight what they have done exceedingly well in their products and concentrate on the short comings. I have an iPhone and a nexus one. I so wanted to like the nexus and for some aspects I do the screen for one is awesome and most of the os is decent. The one thing that apple and developers for iPhone and ipad have got right is the app store. It totally makes both devices. No competitor has anything in the same league and I mean no where near. It's awesome lying on the couch on a Sunday morning with the ipad reading your rss feeds in newspaper format and then perhaps browsing the app store to see what catches your eye and you wish to try. Apple have got it right as much as it pains people to say it. Yes they can improve it in future generations but right now they have a product that is in most ways a game changer combined with he app store it really will not be beat and I think hp etc. Have just come to realize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 As an addendum... people also tend to forget how big of an advancement Apple puts into a new product. The iPhone came out, and people listed what it couldn't do, kind of forgetting in the process that this was the first usable touch phone, and actually the first generic touch computer ever. Pretty much everything about it was radical and revolutionary. It didn't have an app store until 1 year later - because Apple couldn't figure out how to do it any quicker. The whole radical OS X port to a phone needed to be cleaned up first. No other company takes these risks. The iPad is exceptional even by Apple's standards as it's introducing a new product category that hasn't been there before. Call me an apologist but writing my above response I spent 5 minutes thinking about the missing front facing camera and found a few good reasons why it's not there already. I believe it's because of technical issues more than anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negreanu Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Call me an apologist but writing my above response I spent 5 minutes thinking about the missing front facing camera and found a few good reasons why it's not there already. I believe it's because of technical issues more than anything else. I read also it my something about apple trying to get the ipad supported and used in photo sensitive areas such as government installations etc. etc. who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Chiang Mai: 16GB+3G: 31,500 16GB Wifi: 23,500 Seems to cost about 3k baht getting them to CM from BKK. $200 premium - too much @Phil Conners: The iPad isn't sold in HK. So whatever these are they're not "from Hong Kong". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negreanu Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 (edited) Yes they are from HK suppliers who import them from the US (No import duty into HK). So they bring them into HK and then distribute to SIN,TPE,BKK etc. Mongkok Phone centre and Golden in particular. Stacks of them there and i literally mean stacks of them piled up behind dealers. Thats where MBK dealers source them not direct from US. Edited May 13, 2010 by negreanu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKeith Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 So are the 3G iPads in MBK now? Any info on pricing for the 32gb and 64gb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 Yes they are from HK suppliers who import them from the US (No import duty into HK). So they bring them into HK and then distribute to SIN,TPE,BKK etc.Mongkok Phone centre and Golden in particular. Stacks of them there and i literally mean stacks of them piled up behind dealers. Thats where MBK dealers source them not direct from US. => I see! Interesting! Any updates on MBK prices/sources... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotheruser Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Well let me fight my way through the war zone to try to find the prices out. LOL Nobody should be making any trips anywhere near MBK for the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Well let me fight my way through the war zone to try to find the prices out. LOL Nobody should be making any trips anywhere near MBK for the moment. Now live on Channel 7... hard-core Apple fanboy emerges from MBK, using his iPad as a shield from the snipers... Duh!! Sorry kinda forgot about that little detail... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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