As you might have noticed in other threads, i'm trying to figure out getting a PDA/Cellphone.

I'm still confused about some things, more to do with Vodafone at the moment.


I understand you can't have a data plan on prepay, so I assume I will have to move to a plan. This is kinda a bummer, I call much, mainly text so this isn't ideal. Are there any cheap plans that include some data?

Also, the data only plans, other than being rediculously expensive, half of them don't seem to even cover the amount of data that the 'heartbeat' for the Direct Push. How can they possible offer a 3MB plan if that isn't even going to cover the data the phone uses by itself? This basically means your up to the 50MB plan if you want to do anything other than the heartbeat and your paying $40 + GST a month straight away.

However, what i find even stranger, is that the vodafone website doesn't even MENTION this usage of data. It is not described anywhere and the data usage calculators certainly don't take it into account, what is going on?

One other thing, I believe in the review of AKU2 you mentioned you can change the regularity of checks. Was the data usage (15-20MB) you mentioned using the default interval or your custom one of every half an hour?
Is it also feasible to reduce the checking to once an hour as well? This would immediately half the data usage and would be nice.

There is however a possiblility, for me at least.
I'm at home about half the time, say 12 hours a day.

If it is easy (preferably automatically so i don't forget) to use my home wifi for the connection then this could also halve the usage. I could then probably get away with the 15MB/month plan and only pay about $22/month.


I still don't understand how they can offer a 3MB plan though. Even using the lower end of all your estimates with the way I would connect the phone (15MB's a month / 2 for checking every hour /2 for being at home half the time = 3.75MB) is greater than 3MBs!

Crazy!