How to Text with iPad3

iMessage is the "green" texting on iOS devices, it can only be sent/received between iPhones/iPod/iPads running iOS 5 and above and not between other phones as a text message would.

If you have a 3G iPad you may have text allowance in your contract and thus have a telephone number which would let you send text messages when connected to the 3G network.

But by default you can not send text messages as that requires a mobile phone connection which an iPad does not have, the same is true of the iPod Touch.

When using your iPad on the WiFi connection you have internet access and thus can send iMessages.

Can I just say this *****. I bought this device among other reasons to be able to type texts on a larger device. Boooooo!!!

Detroiter313 wrote:

Can I just say this *****. I bought this device among other reasons to be able to type texts on a larger device. Boooooo!!!

It's certainly too bad that you didn't do some research before making such a large purchase. There are apps available in the App Store that will allow you to send texts to non-iOS devices.

and you can if you bought the 3G/4G version and have a SIM card and contract, it will have a number you can use to send/receive texts and many give you an allowance each month of Texts.

But with the WiFi version there is no physical way of sending standard SMS Text message it requires a celluar chip which the WiFi version does not have, hence the 3G/4G versions.

You can however (unlike any other makers device) send texts, not just standard SMS but MMS, so you can include images/files etc to other iOS devices running iOS 5 and above via the iMessage system which bypasses the need for a mobile phone contract/SIM, so you are far better off then those using other makes WiFi only devices.

If you have bought your iPad from Apple in the last couple of weeks you may still have time to take it back and exchange it for the Celluar version, paying the extra money for the price difference.

And I am sorry I have to agree with Meg St._Clair, when spending this kind of money even the smallest of research would be wise.

CGW3 wrote:

and you can if you bought the 3G/4G version and have a SIM card and contract, it will have a number you can use to send/receive texts and many give you an allowance each month of Texts.

This is actually not true on any of the U.S. carriers.

that is a shame, maybe it is us lucky ones in the UK then, although I don't use mine to text, just iMessage 🙂

The correct Verizon address is @vtext.com.

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