"without tethering there is no way just basic web browsing on a phone is going to reach a gig in an entire month."
Here is a short selection of popular webpages and the size of their sub-pages or article pages. These sizes are NOT for the frontpage/homepage of the website, which can get quite large, especially for blogs.
1GB per month / 30 = average 33 megabytes/day. With the average web page view nearly 1/2 megabyte already, you can see that is not a whole lot of allotted data.
Obviously, the 5GB data limit on laptop cards is going to be MUCH worse due to different usage models with a large laptop screen...
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loosely_coupled @ Apr 14th 2008 5:33PM
@The D Train
"without tethering there is no way just basic web browsing on a phone is going to reach a gig in an entire month."
Here is a short selection of popular webpages and the size of their sub-pages or article pages. These sizes are NOT for the frontpage/homepage of the website, which can get quite large, especially for blogs.
websites:
engadget.com (random post) 420KB
yahoo.com (news article) 585KB
nytimes.com (news article) 345KB
seedmagazine.com (article page) 223KB
discovermagazine.com (article page) 731KB
livescience.com (article page) 438KB
tgdaily.com (subpage) 253KB
technologyreview.com (subpage) 247KB
macrumors.com (forum page) 207KB
tmz.com (blog post) 433KB
Average: 389KB/page.
1GB per month / 30 = average 33 megabytes/day. With the average web page view nearly 1/2 megabyte already, you can see that is not a whole lot of allotted data.
Obviously, the 5GB data limit on laptop cards is going to be MUCH worse due to different usage models with a large laptop screen...