iPad 3, in addition to 4G LTE, also has 'Personal Hotspot,' a feature that was earlier exclusive to the iPhone, which let users create a WiFi network to share their phone's data connection.
One advantage of opting for the new iPad on Verizon's 4G LTE network was that, Verizon is offering the mobile hotspot feature as part of all the 4G data plans, whereas AT&T has said that it is working with Apple to enable the feature. It is not clear what it needs to work out when Apple has already enabled it at the operating system level.
Anyways, coming back to the topic, AnandTech and The Verge have found that in their tests the new iPad offers the mobile hotspot feature for more than 24 hours under the "right conditions". The Verge reports:
First and foremost — and easily the most inconvenient aspect of this — the iPad's beautiful Retina display must remain off if you want to reach the absolute maximum of its hotspot endurance. During our testing, we also disabled notifications and push email accounts known to slowly chip away at battery percentage. After configuring a nearby laptop to utilize our iPad's LTE connection, we ran a test that continuously cycled through web content on the machine. To our pleasant surprise, things ran largely in line with AnandTech's initial discovery. Perhaps that's to be expected from the massive 42.5Wh battery that rests underneath the new iPad's 9.7-inch display, but we're so accustomed to seeing LTE devour battery life that it's hard not to be taken aback. Best of all, we saw no evidence of dropped or stalled connections.
While it is nice to know that iPad 3 is the ultimate mobile hotspot device for $629 or more, the problem is that you will probably exceed your data limit before your iPad 3 runs out of charge.
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