ahmad:

scottjpalmer:

ahmad: Not liking my chances of getting decent data on XT though - their "test drive" campaign involves given x number of customers a new phone and 240MB (!!!) of monthly data to use. Reading in between the lines I don't believe their data plans will offer a lot more data than VF's current plans.

I'm a reasonably heavy user of data on my E71 and struggle to use much more than about 100MB / month - 240MB is a decent amount unless you are tethering or downloading a lot of songs/videos.

Have wanted to ask this for some time, and now is as good a time as any.




I have used my iPhone on about 3-5 occasions on $1 casual data for 10Mb in a day while on holidays.




The only thing I've used the iPhone for has been email, and VERY light websurfing - usually to get a little bit of information via a Google search.




Almost inevitably I've had to turn my data tap OFF during the day in order to prevent going over. I've always received the 8Mb warning TXT, and even overshot by 200kb once.




My apps are not updating in the background as far as I know. The apps don't update unless I access them.




I am not sure how geeks like scott and the rest of us could keep under 100Mb a month to be completely honest. Opening a non-mobile enhanced page full of flashy ads (sorry Geekzone but your site was not at all helpful in keeping me under the 10Mb) could alone cost me a significant chunk in images alone!




So what am I doing wrong or different to you guys??




P.S. Is there a site on the internet which you can ask it to load a url (eg. www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp) and get it to give you an idea of how much data it would cost to load that page?