Telstra's iPhone Pricing - no real surprises

Snapper <[email protected]> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>> I bet there's a reason that $5worth of data per month is included in all the plans.

> Which won't go far if you use it for basic things like Google Maps.

Sure, I meant that about the alleged background stuff that the iphone does.

Turns out that it doesnt, and that the $5 worth of data is in all plans, not just those for the iphone, as you pointed
out.

> There are a few threads on Whirlpool discussing this. One guy said
> that he's already gone through around 90 megs just with Google Maps.

Yeah, specially in satellite mode, it does go thru quite a bit.

> Dunno what sort of plan that he's on, but as all the reviewers are
> saying, if you buy the iPhone then expect to use a lot of data.

Like I said, depends entirely on what you do data wise.

> Otherwise don't bother with it.

Thats just plain wrong. Its also a very decent user interface very portable
laptop type device that can do heaps over wifi very conveniently.

Thats what I do with the N95 8GB, move **** all data over the radio link, all of it
over wifi and I pump the lists into it using bluetooth before heading out of the house.

> It'd be like buying a DVD recorder then only using it to watch shows,
> not to record anything on it.

Nope, nothing like if you use wifi for most of the net access.

> I s'pose it's a matter of "watch this space" to see what
> feedback from iPhone users after they get their first bills.

Yep, but like I said, its completely trivial to start with a decent datapack
while its a new toy and then once you see what you stabilise down to
and change to an appropriate lower cost datapack once you know that.

Unusually for Telstra, no shafting at all.

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> Yes, but that may not amount to much in the total cost of owning the
> iphone.
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>> That is, of course, if the iPhone 3G works the same as the original
>> iPhone.
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> I bet there's a reason that $5worth of data per month is included in all
> the plans.

They werent new plans, they are the same plans in use before the iphone was
invented
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