How Much Data is Enough?

[Carve]

Okay, So I've never used Data on any of my phones, I've never needed it and rarely make calls, im thinking of going prepaid Optus or Voda (when they announce it) but the Optus $19 Cap plan is looking good. $50 worth of calls, fine, plus 100mb data. What can that get me on a phone???

How long and stuff, if I download from itunes does that count as Data? or downloading from Optus "Zoo" thing, is that Data?

Im in a Data Pickle.


I hope not to pay 3g iphone prepaid, their heaps!

Thanks

[Piratbyran]

Basically infinite IM. Lotsa email. Bit of web browsing.

[NORMANDY]

can u IM on a iphone with ichat or msn ?

[matthewk]

Originally Posted by NORMANDY

can u IM on a iphone with ichat or msn ?

Not out of the box, but there will be the great big App Store in the "cloud" (as Apple likes to put it) which is sure to have IM clients on launch.

[Paulm]

Save the bigger downloads for home (on your home wireless network) or on the free Optus Wireless hot spots. iPhone 1 wouldn't allow downloads from iTunes over the edge network because of the bandwidth issues, I think 3G may be the same.

[Maticks]

over a few days a lot over a month not a lot.
100mb of data doesn't take a long time to burn through but again it depends what your doing.
if you preview songs on the itunes store it will be around 1mb per song on average.
browsing the cover art could be 10k of data.
mail is an interesting one i usually get all the signatures that people love to do as images which burns some data that way be it again only little amounts but it all adds up.

all depends on how much email you get every day, my suggestion would be install istat menus and checkout the network tab.
it will tell you how much data you've done.
close everything down except IM and your mail and do some fetching over the weekend this will give you an idea of how much traffic you go through.

[NORMANDY]

Originally Posted by matthewk

Not out of the box, but there will be the great big App Store in the "cloud" (as Apple likes to put it) which is sure to have IM clients on launch.

That would be cool... be great to see adium on iphone!

[jrad]

Adium won't be on the iPhone yet...

AdiumForiPhone - Adium X - Trac

[Tom125]

I haven't looked at the Optus plans in detail as I was hoping to go with Vodafone (big mistake...)

But anyway, the current non-iPhone plans on Voda charge you a minimum of 15kb of data every time you use it. Assuming they have the same thing on the iPhone plans:

If you have your phone set up to check email every 5 minutes during the day then you're looking at 15kb x 12 times an hour x 24 hours a day x 30 days in a month = 129,600kb = 126MB

And that's not even downloading any emails greater than 15kb or using the web.

I know that's not necessarily realistic. I would probably be either on my wireless network at home or work for 3/4 of the time (or asleep!) but you could easily eat up 25MB of your 100MB just on email. You don't have to add in many iTunes songs or youtube videos to go over.

I'd be interested to hear how much people already use on a 1st gen iPhone though.

[- - e r i k - -]

However Apolloapp will. What adium does well is a great OS X interface. All its libraries - that actually do the work - are opensource (and hence all the troubles with MSN stems from Libpurple). As the Trac article describes, the iPhone interface is a different beast all together. I'd rather Adium focus on their excellent OS X efforts so far (especially getting video chat into Adium 2.0) and let someone else (like Apollo) create a focused iPhone IM client using the same libraries (or better).

[mechcon]

100mb? what if somebody sends you a large-ass powerpoint presentation in email? or or want to show mates some youtube?

[Piratbyran]

Then my friend, its time to lugg out the 56k modem.

HEll, and your mac portable while you are at it.

[mechcon]

yeah I guess so.. having said that, the 500mb inclusion wih the $59 cap on optus looks ore and more enticisng.. hurry up voda! :P

[peterz]

Originally Posted by mechcon

100mb? what if somebody sends you a large-ass powerpoint presentation in email? or or want to show mates some youtube?

Surely people will be able to show some restraint. Youtube, just limit what you view. As for large attachments in emails, I believe the iPhone has an option where you can choose whether or not to continue downloading an email once it gets past a certain size.

[NORMANDY]

Originally Posted by Jazzdogg

Adium won't be on the iPhone yet...

AdiumForiPhone - Adium X - Trac

oh thats a pity.. oh well lets hope aol, microsolth, and apple or some one gets some IM clients up real quick, as I know for the younger folk out there, this would be a real killer app to be on the iphone

[NORMANDY]

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

However Apolloapp will. What adium does well is a great OS X interface. All it's libraries that actually do the work are opensource (and hence all the troubles with MSN stems from Libpurple). As the Trac article describes, the iPhone interface is a different beast all together. I'd rather Adium focus on their excellent OS X efforts so far (especially getting video chat into Adium 2.0) and let someone else (like Apollo) create a focused iPhone IM client using the same libraries (or better).

Oh just saw your post on this app... what a top app.. cant wait!

[Tom125]

Originally Posted by peterz

Surely people will be able to show some restraint. Youtube, just limit what you view. As for large attachments in emails, I believe the iPhone has an option where you can choose whether or not to continue downloading an email once it gets past a certain size.

Restraint? What's that... not much of that around these parts!

[Edd]

I'd be surprised if there weren't going to be IM clients at launch in the appstore. There will no doubt be an iChat look alike, hopefully support for .mac/.me, AIM/AOL, msn and googletalk.

[- - e r i k - -]

There will be an official AIM client. It was previewed at the SDK launch.

[Cybix]

try meebo - online web IM for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk messengers

it works very well, is web based, I like, actually I'm using it now... supports MSN, AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber.

They even have a version that suits an iPhone when you browse to the URL from your iPhone. Try it! (if you don't have an iPhone yet, download iPhoney to see how sites will look on an iPhone)