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Today in iOS Podcast - The Unofficial iOS, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch News and iPhone Apps Podcast

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Today in iOS Podcast - The Unofficial iOS, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch News and iPhone Apps Podcast

Rob @ podCast411

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4616 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2007

⏱️ 83 minutes

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This is Episode 38 of the Today in iPhone Podcast, please visit www.todayiniphone.com.

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0:00.0

Today in iPhone, item number 38, October 14th, 2007.

0:05.0

Matt from Mobilecast and more Dudley than you can shake a stick at.

0:13.0

Welcome to today and iPhone.

0:15.0

I like it a lot.

0:16.0

Today, iPhone.

0:18.0

Hey, Gawler!

0:20.0

Oh yeah.

0:21.6

Zoom is getting some traction and Steve Jobs goes to Macworld and he pulls out this iPhone.

0:27.6

Hi, this is Gil from Washington, D.G.

0:30.6

I'm just calling to inform iPhone users who might be traveling abroad that I would highly recommend getting what's called

0:41.3

the International Data Global Plan for iPhone through AT&T because if you don't and you do go abroad,

0:49.3

you will be charged two cents a kilobyte. And I did a calculation. And if I based it off

0:56.2

my usage from last month, I had used 54,288 kilobytes for the whole month. And if you

1:05.7

do math, and if I had gone to another country, I was in Europe, to Italy or France or whatever,

1:13.0

I would have been charged about $1,000 in addition to what I was paying for my plan

1:18.8

just for having my iPhone on and using it as it normally would, checking email, browsing the internet, etc.

1:26.7

So I highly recommend people who have iPhones, who plan to go abroad, pay the extra 25 bucks.

1:35.3

You're just going to go for a couple of weeks because it'll save you a lot of money.

1:38.9

And in fact, when I spoke with the representative, she told me that there had already been cases of people coming back from

1:45.3

trips who had left their iPhone on and used data as normal and coming home with several

1:50.3

hundred dollars in pills. So I have a feeling this was going to become an issue eventually

1:54.5

because it doesn't seem like they're properly informing customers to go abroad because you can

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