Comments on: T-mobile G1 Redefines Unlimited Data as 1GB Per Month http://www.cellfanatic.com/2008/09/23/t-mobile-g1-redefines-unlimited-data-as-1gb-per-month The Only Cell Phone Blog You Need Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:35:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Allen http://www.cellfanatic.com/2008/09/23/t-mobile-g1-redefines-unlimited-data-as-1gb-per-month/comment-page-1#comment-3838 Allen Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:26:20 +0000 http://www.cellfanatic.com/?p=3676#comment-3838 I'm not so sure that the 1 GB limit won't be reached by more users. You'd be surprised how little 1 GB can be. If you just read e-mail, you'll be fine, but start using a Slingbox, and watching some videos, and you can be up there in no time flat. At a fast data rate that HSUPA can provide, you could exceed it in about an hour. And don't think only video could bring you over the top. Apple's 1 GB iPod was claimed to hold 250 songs. Lets say a song is 4 minutes, and listen to 250 at iPod quality and your be up to your limit in about 16 hours. Maybe 16 hours is a lot of music to listen to in a day, but this is a month, or 30 minutes a day. No, this is bad. bad. 5 GB is fine, 1 GB is a very bad trend. I’m not so sure that the 1 GB limit won’t be reached by more users. You’d be surprised how little 1 GB can be. If you just read e-mail, you’ll be fine, but start using a Slingbox, and watching some videos, and you can be up there in no time flat. At a fast data rate that HSUPA can provide, you could exceed it in about an hour. And don’t think only video could bring you over the top. Apple’s 1 GB iPod was claimed to hold 250 songs. Lets say a song is 4 minutes, and listen to 250 at iPod quality and your be up to your limit in about 16 hours. Maybe 16 hours is a lot of music to listen to in a day, but this is a month, or 30 minutes a day.

No, this is bad. bad. 5 GB is fine, 1 GB is a very bad trend.

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