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3G iPhone Data Poll: How much data have you used?
After the iPhone debuted, I posted this poll on TUAW, where I first got a sense of how much data YouTube videos and Mobile Safari web pages were pulling down through the network.
We're now about two months into iPhone 3G and I thought I'd repeat the exercise. How much data are you using on that 3G iPhone of yours? Are you still at 2.5G/EDGE levels of usage or has the 3G data bumped you up into new territory?
Pop into your iPhone's Settings > General > Usage pane and check out your Cellular Network Data usage stats. Drop a note in the comments and let us know about how much data you're actually using per month. (Assuming you haven't reset your phone, there will be about 2 months of data there.) And if any of you 1st Gen EDGE iPhone users have comparative data for month-to-month usage (rather than your total stats), that would be great to compare with the 3G numbers.
So have at it, readers. How much data are you using?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
Jay B said 5:06PM on 9-15-2008
170 mb a month roughly....1st gen phone
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Darren Baptiste said 5:10PM on 9-15-2008
Latest month: 140 MB up + 393 MB down: 1st gen
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Vijay said 5:11PM on 9-15-2008
iPhone 2G
Sent: 34.3 MB
Received: 195 MB
I haven't been able to use my EDGE in a week or so because I keep getting a "You are not subscribed to a cellular data service" error :(.
Any chance you guys could address this issue :)
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n00neimp0rtant said 11:33PM on 9-15-2008
I had this problem using T-Zones. There is a simple fix that makes your EDGE even nicer than before if you are: go into Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network > and change your APN to epc.tmobile.com. MxTube, MobileChat, Midomi, and a bunch of other apps will work now. Of course, this is only if you have T-Mobile.
Vijay said 6:02AM on 9-16-2008
Thank you so much man! I could kiss you! I owe you one!
andy said 5:11PM on 9-15-2008
38Mb up, 560Mb down since Canadian launch day, mostly email, Facebook, Mobile Photos and web use. YouTube is for desktops.
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squiggie said 5:14PM on 9-15-2008
Sent - 108 MB
Received - 1.1 GB
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SquiggiE said 5:16PM on 9-15-2008
iPhone 3g
screech said 5:15PM on 9-15-2008
sent 42.4mb, received 303mb
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Zar said 5:15PM on 9-15-2008
2.0gb received
242mb sent
first gen iphone
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Alex said 5:15PM on 9-15-2008
Original iPhone (11 months):
Sent 205MB
Rcv'd 1.2GB = 110MB/month
iPhone 3G (2 months):
Sent 43MB
Rcv'd 500MB = 250MB/month
Yeah, I'd say I'm using just "a bit more" data on 3G :)
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Brian said 5:16PM on 9-15-2008
Sent: 3.1 MB
Received: 10.0 MB
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James C. said 5:16PM on 9-15-2008
About 120MB so far. 100MB of that is received. Doesn't sound like much. :(
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Olivier said 5:18PM on 9-15-2008
58MB sent and 124MB received
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Mauricio Armada said 5:20PM on 9-15-2008
Sent= 64 MB
Received= 846 MB
And i have to say, My battery life after the 2.1 update has been phenomenal! Everything has stayed Exactly the same and now as opposed to maybe 7-9 Hours standby, Im getting 11-13 hours.
My phone and email usage have stayed the same and so has my browsing. Good Job Steve Jobs!!
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Ryan said 9:23PM on 9-15-2008
11-13 standby?
Wow, I would take that bad boy into a Store...I've pulled 38 hours of standby and 6.5 hours of mixed usage (movies, music, games/apps, 3G browsing) on a single charge.
I'm pleased with that, for sure...but anything less...
Mauricio Armada said 9:36PM on 9-15-2008
Well i dont mean standby as in just letting the phone sit. Im sure i could do alot better, if i tried. What i meant was with my regular work use (Phone, Mail, Google Maps for addresses, Heavy browsing, Lite iPod use and maybe a couple of games during conference calls) It has done better than before. I would be dead by the end of my day. Now i actually get home and haven't even gotten the "20 %" Alert.
Trust me i would have been the first one to take it back if i suspected any kind of faulty Battery. But having had an Original iPhone 2G, i really hurt when the iPhone 3G would run out so quick. But now its Just as good. IMO.
Hausmitteilungen said 5:20PM on 9-15-2008
iPhone 2G:
Sent: 244 MB
Recived: 1,1 GB
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Bassir said 5:21PM on 9-15-2008
13.5MB received, and a few hundred kilobytes sent on my iPhone 3G.
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snugs said 5:21PM on 9-15-2008
iphone 3g since jul. 16:
3.7 GB down
1.1 GB up
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