Couple of NOOB questions about O2 prepay, and iPhone 3G ..

condra

Hullo.
I have a 3G iPhone on O2 Prepay. (I got lucky, dont hate me)
I have a couple of questions. If anyone could take the time to answer, I would appreciate it very much.

-3G - Am I right in thinking it costs 1 cent per kilobyte on prepay? This is bloody expensive no?

-If I turn off 3G and the E comes up, I presume that means I'm using Edge. Is this still 1 cent per kilobyte?

- Stupid question - If I'm in a wifi area, how do I use my iPhones wifi without getting charged for internet by O2?

- Weather, GPS etc - Do I get charged for using these? Appearantly I do.

- If I were to go over to bill pay, for the sake of cheaper internet, is there a way to use the iPhone as a modem with my computer?

Thanks for any reply!

Jonathan

womoma wrote: »

-3G - Am I right in thinking it costs 1 cent per kilobyte on prepay? This is bloody expensive no?

-If I turn off 3G and the E comes up, I presume that means I'm using Edge. Is this still 1 cent per kilobyte?

Yup. O2 is crazily expensive for data.

womoma wrote: »

- Weather, GPS etc - Do I get charged for using these? Appearantly I do.

You don't if you are using wifi.

womoma wrote: »

- If I were to go over to bill pay, for the sake of cheaper internet, is there a way to use the iPhone as a modem with my computer?

You can. But no official way.. Steve Jobs obviously didnt see it as a business feature :rolleyes:

condra

jmccrohan thanks for taking the time to answer.

I cant believe its 1 cent per kb. That means, if I wanted to download a 4mb mp3 from the internet on my iphone, it would cost me a whopping 40 euro.

Crazy.

Random

Crazy pricing yes .. but not really in comparison to the whole Irish market.

If you want prepay data then switch to 3 (I don't like them personally, there's plenty of threads on this forum though with similiar and differing views) or hang on for Meteor to launch their prepay data plans (which we're all assuming is Sept / Oct). Can only assume that O2 will follow suit then and no doubt Vodafone as well.

drunkmonkey

Have you thought of unlocking it and sticking in a 3 sim.....that's what i'd be doing.......

drunkmonkey stumbles off to find his 5mp Touchscreen LG Viewty to take snaps of more silly people in silly situations........:D

condra

Has the 3G iPhone been cracked already?

? sorry. Im clueless.

Jonathan

random wrote: »

or hang on for Meteor to launch their prepay data plans (which we're all assuming is Sept / Oct).

Lets hope they listened to the three of us

condra

I just left Meteor to use my iPhone with an O2 sim card, but if and when I can safely unlock it for Meteor, when Meteor have 3G going on, I'll gladly jump the O2 ship. I really like Meteor.

chrislad

random wrote: »

Crazy pricing yes .. but not really in comparison to the whole Irish market.

If you want prepay data then switch to 3 (I don't like them personally, there's plenty of threads on this forum though with similiar and differing views) or hang on for Meteor to launch their prepay data plans (which we're all assuming is Sept / Oct). Can only assume that O2 will follow suit then and no doubt Vodafone as well.

Try about 10 days for Meteor

flodis79

The 3g iphone is not unlocked yet. The pwnage app does only allow you install any app on it. But you can still not put any other sim in it.

Jonathan

chrislad wrote: »

Try about 10 days for Meteor

Data plans being unveiled in 10days?

flodis79

Meteor has already announced that they will start prepay data 99c per day. Similar offer to Voda but think Meteor gives you more than 50 MB per day. And on proxy.

Jonathan

flodis79 wrote: »

Meteor has already announced that they will start prepay data 99c per day. Similar offer to Voda but think Meteor gives you more than 50 MB per day. And on proxy.

Ah yea sure we knew that. I thought you were talking about an actual data bundle.

conway

I've just bought an iphone 3g 16gb to use on vodafone as they offer 50mb download for 99c a day. I just hope the iphone 3g unlock comes out soon, if it doesn't ill have to sell the phone

Jonathan

conway wrote: »

I've just bought an iphone 3g 16gb to use on vodafone as they offer 50mb download for 99c a day. I just hope the iphone 3g unlock comes out soon, if it doesn't ill have to sell the phone

Do you realise than the vodafone offer is totally useless as it is via a proxy?

conway

I dont understand how it useless could you please explain, cheers

Dades

Just reading this thread lads, I'm wondering why people are still giving out about the 1GB bundled with the O2 tariffs.

1 cent per kilobyte is crazy, but 99c per day isn't exactly giving it away either.

Jonathan

The vodafone proxy is port 80 only*. That means everything else bar webbrowsing is blocked.

Means checking mail via builtin pop3/imap client is blocked as they use different ports

*it was anyways. they may have opened up a few other ports. nonetheless it is still via a proxy

conway

Thanks jmccrohan,

Ill probably use wifi for everything but web browsing and check email via hotmail.com.

condra

Conway you would be insane to sell the iphone. Best phone ever.

Jonathan

womoma wrote: »

Conway you would be insane to sell the iphone. Best phone ever.

Oh dear.

condra

jmccrohan wrote: »

Oh dear.

Care to expand? You might validate your "oh dear" comment by actually making a point.

Those sort of conceited comments piss me off.

mobius42

jmccrohan wrote: »

Yup. O2 is crazily expensive for data.



You don't if you are using wifi.


You can. But no official way.. Steve Jobs obviously didnt see it as a business feature :rolleyes:

That's not strictly true. Using the Netshare app, you can use your iPhone as a modem without jailbreaking. Of course, you had to be one of the lucky ones to get it before it was taken down, though it could be put back up in the future.

Jonathan

mobius42 wrote: »

That's not strictly true. Using the Netshare app, you can use your iPhone as a modem without jailbreaking. Of course, you had to be one of the lucky ones to get it before it was taken down, though it could be put back up in the future.

Yea. That is an unofficial way. I never said it couldnt be done.

condra

jmccrohan wrote: »

Yea. That is an unofficial way. I never said it couldnt be done.

Oh dear.

(See?, its easy to sound like a conceited prick without actually making a point, anyone can do it)