Latest articles in the press over here: "Road to Ruin with iPhone" - Owners are beginning to complain about huge bills using the iPhone.

...seems the GPS application is mostly to blame, since it refreshes and loads maps each time you use it, instead of saving or caching them. Typical is 9.2Mb downloaded and 659Kb uploaded during a 1 hour, 35km (21.75 Mile) trip. :eek:

I would think that usage would be included in the data plan. Does AT&T not offer an unlimited data plan with the new iPhone?

Data minutes are unlimited in the US plans.

I heard some flap about no unlimited plans available for the iPhone in Canada and elsewhere. Pretty f'd up. It's not like these plans are unheard of around the world.

i love my mac mini, that is after doing another bunch of huge updates.

now to find more tapes to get videos for youtube... :)

I use a phone headset at work (it spends most of the day on my head). I am still at work, awaiting a phone call to green light a project (so I can send the PO out and head home). Of course, the headset is on (I'm weird that way). The headset is starting to make occasional noises - like a spaceship landing.

Either we are about to be invaded, or I will be needing a new headset soon.

Is your cell phone near it?

When my cell phone syncs with the mothership er.. network it makes the computer speakers make all sorts of weird noises.

Yeah, the static is usually caused by someone holding an electronic device too close to a headset. I can usually tell when someone is reading their blackberry while on a conference call.

However, it can be low battery on your end.

(This is assuming you have the same type of headsets we -- and most of my previous employers -- use.)

I did the front desk at this Skateboard company once and I had to use this headset with the litle mic on the end. When I got bored, I would look off to the side and say "Hi, I'm Mark, your Time-Life operator and have I got a deal for you." People would look at me strange. Like they never dreamed about that...