Comments on: iPhone Owners Use Six Times More Data

By: harry

harry — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:45:52 +0000

I would happily use the iPhone version of websites (e.g., News Ltd website) but there aren't that many on offer in Australia.

I too was pleasantly surprised by my lack of data usage.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:03:03 +0000

I'm not using as much as I thought I would either.

Some of the reported increase probably comes from unintelligent billing systems as much as unintelligent browsing. Vodafone has a minimum data charge and session length so with push syncing for instance I have scores of connections over the course of a day all for 50kb and 5 minutes, when in fact only a couple of Kb have been transferred according to the phone meter. My iPhone meter reports about 60Mb so far this month, and according to Vodafone it's closer to 100Mb. But still well within my limit so I'm not complaining too much.

By: Karl S

Karl S — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:54:27 +0000

According to my iPhone usage counter, my last billing period racked up almost 250MB. However, when my mobile bill came in from Optus it showed my monthly usage to be just under 100MB.

Which one is correct? It will be interesting to see what my next bill says.

By: Talia

Talia — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:31:30 +0000

I've been suprised by my iPhone usage- but not with it being lots, with it being not much!!

I use my iPhone for the internet fairly regularly- twittering all day, checking emails a few times a day, and browsing the internet and youtube at least once a day for around 1/2 an hour.

I use the internet more now then any other phone I've had, but with a gig of download, I can afford too...