Yes Daniel, I had turned off Push notifications too, and Location Services.
I had turned the iPhone off for the plane travel, and not used many apps when I arrived, so it was set up as minimalist as it could be. I was wary and cautious about the high charges on roaming. Little did I realise how the different charging regime of charging by time rather than data volume was going to cost me dearly even with a 'local' SIM card. Tim On 26/10/2011, at 10:19 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > Hi Tim > > Nice summary thanks. > Out of interest though. Had you turned off things like Push for email? > And did you leave Apps running "in the background". (I know they're not meant > to use data,...but I'm still a bit wary of this.) I haven't been out of the > country so haven't been able to test it. > (Any one want to buy me a ticket to New Zealand for a week so I can test it > please??) :)) > > Any app or service that has to keep a connection open I'm sure must be the > ones that chew through the data and cost. Just curious. > > Kind regards > Daniel > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Macintosh** > > On 26/10/2011, at 10:08 PM, Tim Law wrote: > >> I've most often seen questions about travelling with iPad and iPhones, so >> thought I'd send the group my recent experience which may help someone from >> asking the question over again. >> >> I have just spent a month travelling France, Switzerland, Austria and >> Germany. Most of the time we were in France and Germany. >> In Australia I have a data plan with Telstra that gives me 1Gb per month. >> >> /snip >> The next morning I got a text from Orange to say I'd got 3€ left. Eeek. I'd >> not used the iPhone at all, it was chewing through this data all by itself. >> And what's more, part of the place we stayed had good WiFI connection. Part >> of it didn't. When my French friend navigated my account usage on the Orange >> website, he found a long list of data downloads, each with a flagfall of 50c >> (I think), and whilst the data downloaded was minimal, the time was what was >> being charged for. This is unlike Australia where we get charged for the >> amount of data, not the time. At least that's how my Telstra plan works for >> 3G and data. >> >> Lesson learnt, I turned off both 3G and Data, loaded another 20€ onto the >> SIM, and resolved to never turn them on again. >> /snip >> >> Tim >> >> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
