Am I right in thinking that the somewhat limited storage on phabpads means that you're intended to use the cloud as a primary link to work?

I still think in terms of 500+ gb HDs and having everything to hand.

FE, as a professional and constant user would you pay that?

I doubt it, but when you consider what some people pay for mobile phones I imagine there will be a ready market for the new iPad version.

I mainly use my iPad for email on the move, for making notes in meetings, working on the internet - I'm using it to write this - and for its superb ability to get me from A to B on strange territory. I was extremely impressed with the way that it got me (using Google maps) from a French train terminal to the driveway of remote farmhouse in the Provence countryside without a single wrong turn. During the TGV train journey from the Eurostar terminal in Lille to the station in Avignon I tested the iPad's locator sensitivity - it tracked us efficently as we hammered through the French countryside at 200 mph. I even did some work in the forum during the journey.

All that,and a host of useful apps makes the iPad an indispensable device as far as I'm concerned. I have the first generation 64Gb 3G version. I've used later versions but haven't seen anything that compelled me to want to change. When I do make a change it will almost certainly be to another iPad, but 128Gb and 4G isn't ringing my bell right now - over £700 for a tablet is not a cost effective proposition in my book.