Digsy Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 I have a rather whizzy little i-Mate JAM and I love it more than is strictly healthy, but it has a feature that annoys me a little. If I use a GPRS function like web browsing, MMS or e-mail, the GPRS connection remains active unless I manually sever it by pressing and holding the "hang up" key. It might time out on its own but I've not tried this yet for reasons that will become clear below: Question: As far as charging for GPRS services on Vodafone is concerned, am I charged for thelength of time the connection is active, of for the amount of data that actually passes between the phone and the network? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 For the transferred data only Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted May 9, 2005 Author Share Posted May 9, 2005 Cheers. Just out of interest, any idea how much data gets passed back and forth when logging into a POP3 server? I'm toying with the idea of setting it up to check for e-mail regularly but the longest interval you can specify is 99 minutes (how daft??? twice a day would be fine for me). It seems to take forever (well, about a minute) to log into my ISP's POP3 server when I do it through my phone. Obviously over the net onmy PC is it instant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TeXeL Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 I'm guessing your using the standard phone browsing type software (not the full HTML type) To log into a POP3 email server, it would just require you to send the username and password over the connection, something in the region of about 2-15Kb (depending how long each is, in characters). AFAIK GPRS sends the data in pulses, so thats probably where the time goes (only going on what I hear when near a Speaker, on GPRS it's not a constant tone like a voice call). Suppose the amount of data all depends how many graphics the login page has, if it's just the 2 boxes to enter the above info, it won't be much. Hope that made sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
how_supra Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 I had an argument with someone about GPRS and how in this persons mind it doesn't exist and what he thought I should have said and was in fact referring too was GPS. He didn't seem to understand that GPRS existed. So this has made my day Anyway slightly off topic, just felt like sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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