Without the tablet my phone usage would undoubtedly be higher. I have a MB data plan so ok for a week or maybe two away in a month. This topic has 24 replies, 23 voices, and was last updated 6 years ago by mark Viewing 25 posts - 1 through 25 of 25 total. Posted 6 years ago. Two hundred and fifty megabytes. Is a mobile megabyte, different to say a megabyte over broadband?
ElShalimo Full Member. The three guy told me I used 55gb last month, so on that basis about five minutes lol Posted 6 years ago. Deciding on whether MB is right for you is completely dependent on what you use your phone for.
However, if you only use your device for sending WhatsApp messages, you almost have an unlimited amount! With 1GB, you could do one of the following activities:. You can also download files ahead of time. Before your next big trip, try downloading your Spotify playlists, YouTube videos, or Netflix films whilst on Wi-Fi, then play them offline in the future.
If you use Chrome as your web browser, you can go into Settings on your phone and activate the Data saver feature. This sends traffic via Google servers before it downloads on your device, which will reduce the amount of data your device downloads as Google compresses it first. Many other web browsers, like Safari, also have a data saver feature.
Additionally, you can connect to Wi-Fi and ask your web browser to download a webpage for offline use, so when you disconnect, you can view the page without using anything up. You can, however, stop this from happening by restricting the background activities of apps on both iPhones and Android. Sharing photos that are high-resolution, or watching content on the highest definition like p , will suck up a lot of your data. You can save how much data is used up by reducing the quality of these things on your phone.
For example, you can choose to send lower quality photos, rather than the uncompressed originals. Likewise, you can watch a video with slightly lower definition. This will also help with buffering issues, but may make the picture slightly blurrier. Save data by downloading a free video compression app, which will make the file smaller, using less data and uploading more quickly.
Pick your ideal plan and join us today. Put a limit on how much you spend every month so you don't need to worry about getting a big bill. Always very good helpful service with no language barrier. Very efficient service which is why I remain with you. The technitian sets it up with the isntall and you unplug it once a month to reset it and that's all. Today I was prompted to install the iPhone 3.
The download was over MB. If I had MB per month to work with, that one download would have shut me down for a month. And then there are the App Store apps. These get upgraded all the time, and some of them are whoppers. AnatomyLab is 57 MB--that's been updated at least twice since I bought it.
SkyVoyager is 41 MB. And so on. Apple won't do over the air updates for firmware, and I've found the App Store quite poor at downloading super-large apps over 3G on the iPhone. I believe there is a limit to the size of App Store downloads allowed over 3G.
I've been prompted to download over WiFi as my purchase is to large for 3G. I think the cutoff may be MB. I know that this is a hard hard question. But how much data do we use for email? For the web? This is an even harder question I am sure, as it requires imagining what future apps we'll be using. The iPhone is such a compromise in so many ways, don't most people use their computer if it's available? I understand the urge to address this question as soon as possible. But I don't think this even scratches the surface of question.
I think these questions, apt as they are, are unknowable until we have iPads in our hot little hands. The problem is that the iPad will - for many people at least - have rather different usage patterns, as other commenters have pointed out. You're not going to pull one out while waiting in the checkout line at the grocery store, for instance, if you even have it with you while running errands. I'm using a wide array of apps now, some of which download quite a lot of data or stream data, but the way in which Apple uses syncing, requires Wi-Fi for large downloads like podcasts above 10 MB , and so forth, seems to work in favor on the iPhone towards reducing 3G usage.
Which makes sense all around. The iPad will be used differently, but I think it's more likely to be used in scenarios in which Wi-Fi is available. As an example, messages in one mailbox take up a total of 6. I am in Mexico and my first iPhone data plan included MB. It wasn't enough, I reached it within the first 15 days. I used to check the Cellular Network Data but it turned out to be really inacurate.
So when the unlimited data plans were ready I chose one and never worried again. There seems to be one point your not seeing. While some state that the size of the iPad will lower your usage, I see a use cases where it will raise your usage. For instance, a longish car trip. Perhaps you use a navigation app, or perhaps you download a couple of movies a day for the kids. This could put you over fairly quickly. Not to mention if you keep Pandora, or NPR running for hours at a time. I realize that many readers don't take car trips anymore, but some of us still do You're not going to download a "couple of movies a day" over a 3G network--it's simply not fast enough.
It would take 2 to 3 hours, if not longer, to download a 1 GB film. And I wasn't saying that no one will exceed MB per month. Rather, that I was surprised with my use pattern, which seems heavy, that I apparently use Wi-Fi already for all the heavy lifting without even knowing it.
I would never have guessed that. Even though I developed seven games for the platform, I don't have an iPhone for that very reason, the unreasonable plans here. The location of a business, a phone number, etc. So yes, the MB plan will be more than enough for my needs. Now we know that OmniGroup is bringing their apps to the iPad, can someone call Panic and get them working on iPad-Coda? Just for those one minute coding fixes.
I would suspect the date on yours is an artifact. I would think some smaller amount of usage would happen on the iPad since you'd still be using your phone. If I buy an iPad not a sure thing I'll probably not include 3G. When a need develops, I would feed it from a MiFi which I don't have yet and might never.
The MiFi is more flexible--can also feed a laptop Mac or otherwise. Of course, I could change my mind before reaching the bridge or the iPad bridge depending on the situation then. Glenn, Part of the issue is the iPod touch and iPhone tend to view the mobile versions of the sites they are on. I set a bandwidth meter to zero, then went to NYT. It won't take more than a few minutes of surfing to hit 25MB in just one session of light reading.
A flip to the business section, then the Dow story headline, another 2. If the iPad will load the pages in full, a better comparison is what I'm doing, turn on the meter, and just surf as you might while using the iPad. Whatever is being measured, it's not just that Web site. Multiple images were more than half the bytes involved. The Times may have more than average in the way of images, but even the home page of Sports Illustrated loaded up as 2.
That is highly peculiar. I believe you, but that seems like a rather insane amount of data to shove at people for a single page. I just used Firebug in Firefox to measure precisely what's retrieved.
I emptied the cache first. The nytimes. I can't explain the difference in what you're seeing unless there were background push email downloads happening while you were retrieving the NY Times.
Glenn, I certainly appreciate your patience. At K, going 2 links in still puts you close to 2MB. This is still far more than your gut would tell you that browsing would cost you. As with any discussion re the iPad, time will tell. But I'd bet that there will be a number of people who don't consider themselves heavy users but blow thru MB in less than 2 weeks. Still, if you use the nytimes. Thanks for alerting me. First: A pre-paid plan means that you are alloted a finite amount for a set fee.
In either case, as one cannot exceed one's limit, there is no risk of overcharges. Secondly: It might be a bit premature to be estimating how many MB it will take to load a page from the NYTimes, as they will offer an app specifically tailored to the iPad, as demoed back in January.
Other publishers are expected to follow suit. So who knows how much data any one page might consume. On the first point, you're making a supposition, just as I am: we won't know if this is a classical prepaid plan until we get the details. But under a pre-paid, no contract plan, how could it work otherwise? No way they can bill me for going over, all they can do is cut me off when I reach my limit or the end of the time period. I agree it will be interesting to see the terms in writing.
Of more importance though in my mind, is how long this offer might last.
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