iPhone Prepaid Data Plans – TUAW Advice on How Not To Get Stung
Thinking of trying out a prepaid data plan for your iPhone? Like the idea of a quick trip to Flickr costing you $24? Doesn’t sound too great to me.
Luckily, Erica Sadun at TUAW has given a prepaid data plan a good once-over. She offers a nice list of typical data usage and browsing activities, and shows the specific cost that resulted for each.
One of her (not surprising) conclusions is that "the iPhone doesn’t play well with limited data plans" – but she still offers some good tips on the best ways to avoid getting stung and manage your pre-paid plan so that you don’t get hit with crazy ‘overage’ type rates and charges if you need to use this type of plan.
Check out Erica’s post to see how that dog picture on Flickr ended up costing her $24 and to get those tips that’ll help if you’re considering a pre-paid plan:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/24/prepaid-data-packages-and-the-iphone/
