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Bossman
01-08-2007, 16:10
http://consumerist.com/consumer/sticker-shock/iphoneatt-3000-international-roaming-bill-seves-as-cruel-warning-284555.php
AdmiralAK
05-08-2007, 16:01
While I agree that prices are too much, and that at&t does not offer good data roaming for the iphone, this guys is not the brightest bulb. He is a web developer and he does not know the average size of an email or website? not even a ballpark estimate? It's like being a car mechanic and not knowing how much a quart of engine oil costs! People like that should not be practicing that profession...
dg7feq
06-08-2007, 08:46
While I agree that prices are too much, and that at&t does not offer good data roaming for the iphone, this guys is not the brightest bulb. He is a web developer and he does not know the average size of an email or website? not even a ballpark estimate? It's like being a car mechanic and not knowing how much a quart of engine oil costs! People like that should not be practicing that profession...

yeah, thats what i tought too when reading the article. How naive can you be to assume that a web-designer doesnt know how much 1 kbyte is? LOL

Chris
Stu
06-08-2007, 14:15
The thing is that he got ATT to eat the charges when he was thoroughly in the wrong. I don't know what to think about that.

If you are using a push email service and the foreign roaming partner rounds per transaction, he can run up a fortune in roaming charges doing very little. Also Google maps uses a ton of data because it really doesn't cache all that much. For foreign trips, take a look at Nokia's Smart2go which has free maps if you don't want direction by direction instructions that you can download to an SD card when you have a wifi connection.
AdmiralAK
06-08-2007, 15:54
For foreign trips, take a look at Nokia's Smart2go which has free maps if you don't want direction by direction instructions that you can download to an SD card when you have a wifi connection.


Yet one more reason that I choose Nokia and SE phones (well maybe a WinMo phone here and there too :p) over the 'embrace + extend' phones (i.e. blackberry, iphone, hiptop). You can easily throw in a prepaid SIM and have TomTom (or some other mapping software).