iphone 4 - data limit
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- Ranger
Just upgrading and all the O2 tariffs have ditched the unlimited data. Does anybody have any ideas whether 500 MB of data allowance a month going to be enough for regular emails, maps and average use out and about?
If not I might have to swap to Orange - unless anyone has any horror stories of Orange service in London.
- raf0
- aanderton0
I've got 500mb on my android with orange. I rarely use maps but for general day to day use its just about ok. If you're planning to use the internet on a daily basis and get a fair few emails you'll probably need more.
- ESKEMA0
I have 500 mb but I'm practically always on wifi, suits me perfectly, if you don't spend most of your day under wifi, it might be short.
- Ranger0
I probably am either in the studio or my flat for most of the time but just worried about people sending stupid large emails that sap my allowance while I'm out of wifi.
Orange doesn't sound too good judging by that Raf, at least you can get some cheap cinema tickets though.
- comicsans0
I have used 196Mb in 6 months, with light non-wifi usage (checking email, bus times, maps, mild browsing ...)
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- RW0
I am in the same boat... I was about to upgrade to iPhone4 but saw they got rid of unlimited data; it's the only thing that's now stopping me upgrade.
- Stian0
I have the 3gs with unlimited traffic. I´m using it hard - email, surfing, tethering, spotify, navigation ++. In two months I´ve received 4.1gb and sent 1.9gb.
- Atkinson0
500 is a lot. I use mine 2hrs/day, half that with no wifi and I don't get close to 500. I use the o2 simplicity 500 tariff.
- Atkinson0
orange are shit, o2 .
- Ranger0
Well I have one from O2 being delivered tomorrow. On a £30 pm tariff which is cheaper than I've been paying for the last couple of years. They said there is an app to check your data usage so hopefully I'll be OK - I get pissed off with how slow the 3G works anyway so I always turn it off after waiting a minute for a page to load.
- DrBombay0
I have used 86mb this month thus far. I ride a bus to and from work a total of an hour a day. Mild browsing, email, twitter etc. I rarely stream audio or video.
- lvl_130
yeah, it's the streaming audio/video that kills it. I use pandora and last almost everyday, and use an average of about 2gigs a month.
- hellojeehae0
i use about 700mb. i am using it more and more.
be safe and go with a bigger data plan. after a month or two you will know exactly how much you use.
- Wolfboy0
The thing is about the 500MB thing is that it might be fine for the moment. The majority of people might only use their phones with a bit of light web browsing, sending the odd email and get nowhere near 500MB; but these contracts are 18 and 24 months long. In that time I would say that most people will start to use them for more and more data hungry things like music streaming etc.
To me it looks like the companies are setting us up to make a killing later in the contracts.
I'll be moving from o2 to Vodafone for the better network and 1GB usage.
- stewdio0
Seriously, as a new-comer to the UK, what's better: Orange or O2? Does it boil down to price? Service area? What's the story? Because the info I've found on my own is hopelessly confusing.
- Wolfboy0
The price is practically identical when you boil everything down so it's got to be about service and network.
I'm on O2, but I'm going to switch to Vodafone for a couple of reasons - the already mentioned data limits and from what I can gather from talking to people using the different companies, they have the best network coverage. I've heard pretty poor things about Orange.
- O2's coverage is awful... forever getting the dreaded "No Service" messagehans_glib