iPad: 3g Envy? Lets play Wait and See

So some of the bleeding edge early adopters are having 3G envy. What could I do with the device if I could be on the internet all the time? We've already seen a veritable plethora of information about what people are finding they are able to do with the device that no one ever thought they could before the release. A million people can't be wrong, well they can but the odds go down pretty sharply, so what else could we be doing if we had be just a fraction more patient?

Well Boy Genius Report has posted that the new Android version Froyo (2.2) is going to support wifi hot spotting. So now, if you have a Palm Pre, Palm Plus, Blackberry 9700 (model number to be confirmed), hacked iPhone (and a disregard for AT&T's terms of service) or an Android phone, you can share your 3G capabilities with your iPad. How much longer before every phone on the market allows this?

So, should you shell out another 130$ for 3G on your iPad, and then 25$ a month for another data plan, or wait for either your phone or SP to provide a phone that has a Wifi hot spot built in? Do you need 3G, seriously, does anyone NEED 3G? Travellers, sure, so long as they are in the continental US, roaming plans are ridiculously expensive and not unlimited. Business people who can write off the montly expense, why not? But if you are spending 20% of the time on a 3G network, and real honestly I think the number would be much lower, then is it worth an additional 60% charge on your iPad over the first year (130$ initial, and 25$ a month for the year).

I'd like to see a pay as you go plan from AT&T, now that I might be interested in. Assuming that the unlimited plan is really 50 gigs, let me buy 50 gigs of data transfer at 25$, and when I run out I can buy more. That would make economical sense and make the device that much more useful for the odd time you need to use 3G, but for the same reason (economical sense for us) AT&T probably won't do that because they think they won't make as much money. If you make something cheap, and easily accessible, you will make money. Something most companies don't understand. People are buying 0.99$ apps from the app store by the tens of millions. It's really easy to buy the apps, and they're only a dollar, so if they suck, so what? You and 10 million people agree, and that company just made a ton of money...

What do you think? What kind of data plan would you go for if any? Do you have a phone that is wifi enabled?