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Best Buy Offering iPad MiFi Bundle

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Best Buy is offering an iPad MiFi bundle with service plans available on AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint. The MiFi will support a maximum of five devices, including the iPad, 9 to 5 Mac reported.

Best Buy also announced plans to abandon its restocking fee.

The iPad promo is only offered until January 2, and the product is currently backordered on Best Buy's site. With the bundle, the MiFi hardware is free, but customers must sign up for a two-year plan with the carrier of their choice.

The promo is for the iPad with Wi-Fi, with the 16GB model priced at $499, the 32GB device for $599, and the 64GB tablet for $699.

Best Buy on Saturday also ditched its restocking fee.

"We've listened to your feedback! Effective 12/18 we're removing restocking fees most products," said a tweet from @Coral_BestBuy.

Now Best Buy's return policy says that a "25 percent restocking fee applies to Special Order Products, including appliances, unless you are a Reward Zone Program Premier Silver member, the item is defective, or the fee is prohibited by law."

The site doesn't clarify what qualifies as a special order item, and Best Buy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rumors have been circulating that an updated iPad will be available in early 2011. Sources have said that the device could get a significant upgrade, with features like dual cameras, a better screen, and sleeker form factors. However, PCMag audio analyst Tim Gideon said that the rumors about an earlier than normal upgrade don't have much basis in fact.

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Leslie Horn joined the PCMag team as a news reporter in the fall of 2010. She covered a wide range of topics, from digital media to the latest Apple rumor. After graduating with a degree in Magazine Journalism from the University of Missouri, she wrote for Out & About, a travel guide in coastal Maine. One of her favorite reporting experiences was covering the 2008 Olympics from Beijing. She travels every chance she gets; a favorite trip was backpacking along the coast of Brazil. Though she was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Leslie embraces life as a New Yorker.

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