Duh, I thought we (i.e. developers with several years of mobile sw development behind) could already get rid of this problem, sit back and rely on that 1: Android devices will all be sold with a binding contract with an operator (not as if it was always good) 2: that contract had an unlimited plan. This would have saved us quite a bit of time on trying to figure out what is good for the user.
On Symbian it's been a long time issue (since the platform is much older than Android). We had to (and since there's serious QA criteria to fulfill for your app to be officially signed we still have to) warn the user that such an operation is to be performed during the application's lifetime that may potentially suck money from the user's wallet. Home network, roaming status, available WiFi hotspots, etc. are all taken into account and the user can specify a preference among these. Seamless roaming is such a new feature provided by the system that enables an app to continuously exchange data with a remote server while the comms stack changes between, say, home network (where data plan is still affordable) and your home WiFi hotspot. It was also troublesome, even though could be done with reasonable effort, to always ask the user for her preference whenever your application was to set up a network connection. I thought we wouldn't have to face this problem at all on Android with unlimited plans everywhere. Sad to hear that this is not the case. Just my $0.02, Tote On Mar 8, 11:41 pm, "Eric Wong (hdmp4.com)" <ericwon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, in some parts of the world 3G data cost is astronomical........ > > In Australia....Optus's HTC G1 > "A $59 Internet Cap plan includes $350 worth of calls and text and > 500MB of data, while a $79 Internet Cap plan includes $550 worth of > calls, unlimited text and 700MB of data. Two timeless plans offer > 1.5GB ($113.95 per month) and 3GB ($129) data allowances > respectively."http://www.techworld.com.au/article/275393/htc_launches_first_android... > > You can check out the details from Optus (www.optus.com.au) > > I think one of the limiting factors for Android in such countries is > many customers would be shocked with the data overcharge........and > this would prevent Android uptake in mobile phones............Google > should really implement some simple settings within Android to allow > one to shut off data access to 3G/GPRS completely (but not wifi) > instead of relying on 3rd party apks.....E.g. a simple click at the 3G/ > GPRS data icon to turn it off? > > This would be useful for roaming customers as well........I am sure > everyone have seen the roaming story already? > > Eric --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
