Blackberry Data Usage

Megalin

Megalin

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Hi All

Just wanted to know what is your average BB data usage per month. I am thinking of getting an equivalent MTN data plan for my Android. Will use it for e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and occassional web surfing.
 
Megalin said:
Hi All

Just wanted to know what is your average BB data usage per month. I am thinking of getting an equivalent MTN data plan for my Android. Will use it for e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and occassional web surfing.
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How do u even check that?
 
On your BB:

Options -> Status and then type "buyr" . You will then see how much data you used , i think that is since you got the phone. I've had my phone about 2 months now and i'm sitting on 286MB , so i'd say 150MB per month should be fine if you're not doing crazy stuff like streaming videos. I most likely use less than that since my first month i downloaded a heap of applications which i most likely won't do again soon.
 
On average i use between 400 and 600 megs a month. On my android phone now i use about 30 megs a day, BUT IT IS STILL NEW SO I am probably downloading unneccesary stuff.
 
Megalin said:
Hi All

Just wanted to know what is your average BB data usage per month. I am thinking of getting an equivalent MTN data plan for my Android. Will use it for e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and occassional web surfing.
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I'm not sure you can use a mb to mb comparison as RIM compresses all the data that the blackberry uses.
 
diabolus said:
On your BB:

Options -> Status and then type "buyr" . You will then see how much data you used , i think that is since you got the phone. I've had my phone about 2 months now and i'm sitting on 286MB , so i'd say 150MB per month should be fine if you're not doing crazy stuff like streaming videos. I most likely use less than that since my first month i downloaded a heap of applications which i most likely won't do again soon.
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Mine says: "Exceeded 1048576K".
 
diabolus said:
On your BB:

Options -> Status and then type "buyr" . You will then see how much data you used , i think that is since you got the phone. I've had my phone about 2 months now and i'm sitting on 286MB , so i'd say 150MB per month should be fine if you're not doing crazy stuff like streaming videos. I most likely use less than that since my first month i downloaded a heap of applications which i most likely won't do again soon.
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thanks man
mine says 389379.9K
???
 
Claymore said:
Mine says: "Exceeded 1048576K".
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No idea, here's an article wondering the same, apparently it's something to do with some old Warranty thing

http://m.crackberry.com/exceeded-da...-status-screen-type-b-u-y-r-quest-ce-que-cest
what you'll see are actual figures of data used and minutes of voice used. Some googling around found that **maybe** this exceeded message (which can't be reset as far I know) is related to an old warranty/return type thing from RIM - once you've used over 60minutes voice/250k data the device is yours to keep whether you like it or not. But not all devices seem to show this message even when going over the limits.
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and the reason might be related to
this is because a phone with less that 60 minutes on it can still be sold as "new." I assume the data usage is for the same purpose. Hope that helps.
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Please remember that Blackberry data is compressed by the BB servers and therefore substantial savings on data traffic is obtained. Data usage on a Android phone will be higher as no compression is utilized on that platform.
 
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