
01-15-2007, 06:40 PM
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Re: Blackberry Roaming Data Usage ian used his keyboard to write :
> Hi,
>
> I looking at getting a Blackberry from O2 on the Internet service (so
> no BES), and am trying to figure out what my international roaming
> charges might be, as I will be charged on a per MB basis.
>
> Say I receive on average 100 emails per day, and the average email size
> is say 20KB (totally arbitary, is this a fair guess?), that would give
> me about 2Mb.
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> What are the best ways to keep down the data usage. I beleive you can
> set filters to limit what comes down. If I limit it to only download
> the email headers can the Blackberry then pull down the full email on
> an ad-hoc basis? What is the size per email for just the header? If it
> is say 2k then my daily usage would be 200k...
>
> Obviously I will have to be careful on downloading attachments, will it
> tell me the attachment size before I download it?
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
>
> Ian
BlackBerrys use very little in terms of data.
There is very great compression employed. Furthermore, attachements are
only downloaded if you specifically choose to do so, on a mer email
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