On Apr 2, 2014, at 8:43 AM, M Christol <[email protected]> wrote: > I am thinking about moving into the 21st century & getting a smart phone. > Probably an iPhone. > When I look at provider plans, they talk about data use. > I'm not exactly sure what that is. > I don't expect to upload pictures of my lunch to FaceBook but I would likely > use maps. > Any idea what kind of data usage I might incur megabyte-wise?
Maps is fairly data-intensive but it's still in the 'tens of megabytes' range, not gigabytes. I have found a super-cheep provider for pay-as-you-go <http://www.lycamobile.us/en/?ds_medium=cpc&gclid=COL09MSawr0CFZJj7Aod7jIANw> It's BYO phone, and they run on T-Mobile's network here in the US. 2cent per minute voice, 4 cents per text, and 6 cents per megabyte. It has to be a GSM phone, I picked up an old iPhone 4 and it works just fine. If you use it in pure PAYG, a iPhone will incur a crapton of data charges, because they have a 0.01 cent minimum, and every time Notes updates a 37 byte string you get dinged, but their monthly plans don't charge like that, they just keep track of the usage. I'm around WiFi I can connect to almost all the time, so I just turn off Cellular data, and turn it back on when I need to use it. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
