iPhone Users Use More Mobile Data Than Others

[Vincent Ferrari]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.edibleapple.com/average-iphone-user-consumes-400mb-of-data-every-month/' target='_blank'>http://www.edibleapple.com/average-...ta-every-month/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Compared to other smartphone owners, iPhone users not only go on the Internet more often, but tend to browse for longer periods of time and download more mobile content in the process. According to Roger Entner, a telecom research analyst for Nielsen, AT&amp;T's network still isn't prepared for an onslaught in data consumption. In an interview with the USA Today, Entner points out that the average iPhone user consumes upwards of 400 MB of data every month. In comparison, most smartphone users only consume around 40-80 MB of data every month."</em></p><p><img height="347" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1245672561.usr18053.jpg" width="305" /></p><p>Of course iPhone users use more data.&nbsp; The experience is infinitely better than anything else out there!&nbsp; This is no secret to anyone who's used another smart phone.&nbsp; Would you want to do more than extremely light browsing on a BlackBerry?&nbsp; Or how about using the Pocket IE from Windows Mobile 6?&nbsp; Both are unmitigated disasters for browsing anything but custom-designed web sites.</p><p>Is Safari on the iPhone perfect?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; I'd still like to see Flash in it just so that the only barricade to the "real web" can be removed, but Safari's speed, rendering accuracy, and overall ease of use put it at the top of the heap.&nbsp; Even derivatives of Webkit on other handhelds (think Palm Pre and Android) are exceptionally good and are likely to put similar strains on Sprint and T-Mobile's network as their marketshare continues to increase.</p><p>There's a reason the iPhone is a data consumption machine: it works.</p>

[emuelle1]

Yep, Flash is about the only impediment anymore to using the iPhone as a mobile replacement for desktop browsing.

I used Windows Mobile for years. Pocket IE is about as close to pointless as possible. Microsoft's solution appears to be a mobile port of IE6. I have no idea what they're thinking; IE6 is the worst browser after Pocket IE. Various ports of Firefox for WM had been promised over the years, but most were little more than abandonware. I was using Iris browser for a while, but it was painfully slow and quickly filled up the pitifully small amounts of RAM available in Windows Mobile. It crashed a lot. Don't get me started on Opera, either Mobile or Mini. Neither was satisfactory for any real browsing, at least on my devices.

Mobile Safari on the iPhone has a long way to go, but it's years ahead of anything I used on Windows Mobile. My only BlackBerry experience is on an old 7130e that work issued me.

[michaelalanjones]

Remember that this data is based on the fact that the iPhone downloads tons of data, discards most of it, and shows what's left, while the BlackBerry proxy server surgically removes the junk and sends only the relevant data. That is why the iPhone is killing the 3G internet for all the other (non-iPhone) users. It is a pig, slopping up the internet, snuffling for that one kernal of sweet corn at the bottom of the trough. Wow, did I say all that?

[Islanti]

Remember that this data is based on the fact that the iPhone downloads tons of data, discards most of it, and shows what's left, while the BlackBerry proxy server surgically removes the junk and sends only the relevant data. That is why the iPhone is killing the 3G internet for all the other (non-iPhone) users. It is a pig, slopping up the internet, snuffling for that one kernal of sweet corn at the bottom of the trough. Wow, did I say all that?Are you referring to email filtering or Internet browsing or something else entirely?