Ask Dr. LJ -- Smartphone Edition

[bluegargantua]

Hey,

So I purchased my cell phone when Bush Jr. was president. It's old and battered and doesn't hold a charge well and I feel like it's time to get a smartphone.

In unrelated news, Apple just announced it's releasing a super-sized iPhone that will fit quite comfortably in my large, meaty hands.

However, having a smartphone means I need a data plan of some sort if I hope to truly have the internet in my pants. I have no idea what a reasonable data limit should be. I *believe* I'd be fairly light on the bandwidth, but I might find more data intensive uses for my phone. So how much data is on your plan?

Thanks
Tom

Comments

[drwex]

I have been on an unlimited plan. I'm at the point where I want to upgrade the phone and will have to go to some kind of cap. Verizon says that I've been using about 1.6G/mo average. The people who watch videos and (gods help me how do they do that) movies on their phone will use a lot more. I do gaming, maps, and email mostly as my data-intensive things.