iPads show up in Singapore, disappear shortly...

Well, sort of... If you're in the market for a 16GB iPad (WIFI or 3G), I think you might still be in luck. My friend got hers at Multimedia Integrated at Funan Centre at about 7pm yesterday (Friday, 23 July).

Once again, I have paid an early adoption fee for the 64GB iPad 3G+WIFI. Got it for CAD879. After taxes, it came up to about SGD1,450 (turns out the opportunists weren't selling it for too much of a profit!). Looks like the iPad prices in Singapore are very competitive.

One big question mark lingers: why isn't the online Apple Store in Singapore selling the iPad? Is the deal exclusively for the resellers to distribute it? And looking at the way iPads are sold here, it seems that Apple had intended for the iPad to be sold independently of telcos (same case in Australia, too) unlike the AT&T tie-up in the US.

For me, I am sharing my iPhone's data plan with my iPad via a MultiSim arrangement. Works like a charm.