How much mobile data do you use a day?

[d000hg]

I'm thinking of upgrading my phone and never used one for internet access before. I WFH nearly the whole time so would use WiFi, but on the times I go outside being able to use email without incurring a heavy fee would be nice.

I've literally no idea how much data simple email takes up over the course of a day so for those geeks who monitor such things, any idea what you get through would be nice!

For instance many contracts include only 100Mb/month... but if I only use my phone on 3G a few days a month that might be fine.

Thanksyou

[MarillionFan]

I'm thinking of upgrading my phone and never used one for internet access before. I WFH nearly the whole time so would use WiFi, but on the times I go outside being able to use email without incurring a heavy fee would be nice.

I've literally no idea how much data simple email takes up over the course of a day so for those geeks who monitor such things, any idea what you get through would be nice!

For instance many contracts include only 100Mb/month... but if I only use my phone on 3G a few days a month that might be fine.

Thanksyou

I haven't used 100MB in 3 years of having an iPhone. I normally only download stuff when in a Wifi zone.

[NickFitz]

For email and web browsing, I've never come even close to reaching the limit. The only time I have hit the limit has been when streaming video fairly frequently over 3G; most apps don't let you do that anyway.

[ctdctd]

From this link:-
To me 100MB sounds fine for occasional use so long as you don't download or stream anything

500MB = 1GB =
Basic webpages (mainly text) 5,000 10,000
Rich webpages (with multimedia) 1,500 3,000
Basic e-mails 500,000 1,000,000
Rich e-mails (with attachments) 1,000 2,000
Downloading/streaming music 100 songs 200 songs
Downloading/streaming video 1 hour 2 hours
Skype voice call 15 hours 30 hours
Skype video call 2 hours 4 hours
Listening to online radio 8 hours 16 hours
Downloading/updating apps 80 apps 160 apps

ETA - Bloody formatting - the preview is fine! Just click the link!

[SimonMac]

I am a heavy user and I use about 500mb a month

[minestrone]

I noticed that angry birds rio shifted 25 meg of adverts down the pipe during a month of solid playing.

[AtW]

Approximately 1 KB at best on SMS messages.

[Spacecadet]

Streaming pr0n can consume a surprisingly large amount

[Gonzo]

On my last overseas trip I got through 4MB of data in about ten minutes. That worked out quite expensive.

[Scrag Meister]

I had an unlimited IPhone data contract with O2 before I switched to the Galaxy S2, still with O2, and was then limited to 500Mb per month.

I did some checks before hand and the most I had used during any month during the 2 year IPhone contract was 270Mb. So 500Mb was still nearly twice my highest monthly usage.