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<blockquote data-quote="Alan Shutko" data-source="post: 5659270" data-attributes="member: 23694"><p>I disagree.</p><p></p><p>My wife is ok with a 200MB a month plan on her iPhone. She doesn't use it much.</p><p></p><p>I use my iPhone a lot, and looking at the last 16 months, I have used between 116 MB and 600MB. Here's what you need to consider:</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Streaming video and music (i.e. Pandora or Spotify) will use a lot more bandwidth. I don't do much of either.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">You will use more data and battery if you have your phone poll for new mail every 15 minutes or so than not polling until you open the app. Except for my MobileMe account which is push, I don't have my mail poll in the background. It downloads when I look at it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If you are around wireless access points throughout parts of the day, you'll use less cellular data. With the iPhone, the battery is good enough that I leave wifi on all the time, and if I'm near an open and free wifi, my data can go over that. (We have an AT&T wifi hotspot at work near the conference rooms.) I've read suggestions for Android phones that recommend turning wifi off unless you know you're using it, since their battery life tends to be lower.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Tethering, of course, will suck data like no tomorrow. I don't tether with my iPhone; I got a Verizon mifi before AT&T decided to open up tethering, so I use that. Using my laptop on it ~8 hrs a day (but being conscious about not downloading big things) uses 2.5-3.5GB a month.</li> </ol><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, it's gotten a lot better and I don't drop calls as much. I attribute at least some of the problem to AT&T. I don't put much stock into the antenna problems with the iPhone 4, since I've had the iPhone 4 without a case since release and had about the same level of problems I had with the iPhone 3G.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alan Shutko, post: 5659270, member: 23694"] I disagree. My wife is ok with a 200MB a month plan on her iPhone. She doesn't use it much. I use my iPhone a lot, and looking at the last 16 months, I have used between 116 MB and 600MB. Here's what you need to consider: [LIST=1] [*]Streaming video and music (i.e. Pandora or Spotify) will use a lot more bandwidth. I don't do much of either. [*]You will use more data and battery if you have your phone poll for new mail every 15 minutes or so than not polling until you open the app. Except for my MobileMe account which is push, I don't have my mail poll in the background. It downloads when I look at it. [*]If you are around wireless access points throughout parts of the day, you'll use less cellular data. With the iPhone, the battery is good enough that I leave wifi on all the time, and if I'm near an open and free wifi, my data can go over that. (We have an AT&T wifi hotspot at work near the conference rooms.) I've read suggestions for Android phones that recommend turning wifi off unless you know you're using it, since their battery life tends to be lower. [*]Tethering, of course, will suck data like no tomorrow. I don't tether with my iPhone; I got a Verizon mifi before AT&T decided to open up tethering, so I use that. Using my laptop on it ~8 hrs a day (but being conscious about not downloading big things) uses 2.5-3.5GB a month. [/LIST] Well, it's gotten a lot better and I don't drop calls as much. I attribute at least some of the problem to AT&T. I don't put much stock into the antenna problems with the iPhone 4, since I've had the iPhone 4 without a case since release and had about the same level of problems I had with the iPhone 3G. [/QUOTE]
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