TUAW poll: How much iPhone data have you used?

Yesterday, I wrote about setting up the iPhone with pay-as-you-go service. Without purchasing feature packs, the data plan goes for an exorbitant $0.01/KB. (With a feature pack, the data goes down to $2/MB, or $0.002/KB.) This got me wondering. It's been almost a month since the iPhone debuted. How much data have you used? My iPhone tells me that I've sent 608 KB and received 2.9 MB--although with all my resets and restores, that number is probably much lower than my actual usage. Still, that's nothing compared to our own David Chartier. He's at 12.2 MB sent and 59.8 MB received. (Data junkie!) So I'm curious. How much EDGE data have you sent and received? You can find out by selecting Settings -> Usage. Let us know in the comments how big a data user you are. Bragging rights to everyone who beats out David.

Update: It looks like the average is currently around 150-200 MB for readers who aren't hovering around WiFi hotspots. The current high is near 2.7 GB. The few of us who have ready WiFi access are way, way down in comparison.

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Chris

Sent: 30.6MB
Received: 211MB

July 26 2007 at 4:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rene

18.4mb sent, 112mb recvd

July 24 2007 at 2:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tubs

Did anyone know how to switch off the edge on Iphone or on the "Pay As You GO" plan?
I am using the iPhone with a standard "Pay As You GO", and wifi... i don't want to get charge for the edge...

July 21 2007 at 8:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Wilma

22.8 MB Sent
125MB Received

I have been playing alot of games though

July 21 2007 at 8:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Everyday Weekender

0 sent
0 received

I don't have one :(

July 21 2007 at 5:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Garrick

Bought my phone July 3

As of July 20, Sent 9.3 Mb
Received 116 Mb.

I've always wanted to beat Chartier.

July 20 2007 at 9:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

justos

one point five weeks =
19.5 MB Sent
226 MB Received

July 20 2007 at 9:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mben

16.5 MB sent
98.5 MB received

Looks fairly average. I would have thought higher as I've been using it until battery dies during conferences. (On that I average about 4:30 PM after an all night charge)

But 11 hours 58 minutes on call time, it's going to be close! But ATT coverage is weak at my desk! That's a problem.

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CatCow

12.2MB sent, 72.7MB received.
I'm not a terribly heavy data user on phones that aren't tethered to my laptop :) Light web browsing, a few youtube videos here and there, and 2-4 emails a day is all.
With my previous Treo 650 on Verizon which I used with my laptop for internet access, 600-800MB was average monthly usage, with an all time high of about 1.2GB in one month. And that was 1xRTT. I haven't a clue how much data I've used with my new Sprint EVDO modem, it's a LOT. But Sprint doesn't give me data stats and the Mac doesn't log data throughput on the connection like the Windows connection manager does.

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tps

sent 15.1
received 88

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