A few days ago, I thought of using my Smart LTE sim card to an iPad 4 or Mini and see if the LTE service would work. Alvin of Cheftonio.com had a similar thought when he tweeted about it a few days ago. He said that he will try it with an iPad 4 once he gets a chance.
I got my friend to lend me his iPad 4 cellular and I was able to acquire a Smart LTE Prepaid SIM (I’m too lazy to take out my SIM card from the iPhone 5) the other day. I had to update my friend’s iPad 4 in order for it to have LTE connectivity. After the update, I activated the SIM and inserted it to the iPad 4 with a MicroSIM adapter. It wasn’t too long until the 3 magic letters appeared on the upper left corner of the iPad 4.
Now that we know it works, how fast is it? I did 3 tests for today, one in Pasong Tamo and the other 2 here in Jupiter St. Here are my Speedtest results:
The left picture shows the result on the iPad. The right picture is a screenshot on the iPhone while it is connected to the iPad 4’s Personal Hotspot.
I took a video of the iPad 4 earlier but the result was slower during the recording. I think Smart’s LTE is camera shy 🙂
Yesterday, Smart announced that they will be offering both the iPad 4 WiFi + Cellular and iPad Mini WiFi + Cellular starting on May 18. Is that a coincidence or what! No pricing for these yet but you can sign up on their website and be notified prior to the release date.
So what’s your fastest SMART LTE speedtest?
Hi Aaron,
The fastest could be the one I posted above, 29.17 MB at Jupiter St. In Bel-Air Village, Makati.
That’s nice. The fastest I got was 64Mbps. It was shocking. I never thought I’d get that. Please don’t think I’m being a braggart. I just want to share how fast SMART LTE is. 😀
That’s ok 🙂 Glad to know that there are other areas here with that kind of speed 🙂
How do u activate an lte sim?
Hi Trixie,
A Smart LTE Prepaid SIM is already good to go, no activation required. If it’s brand new then you can text LTE 299 and send it to 2200 to use activate the free 7-day unlimited access.