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Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T
Tech.Luver writes "Jay Levy says he has been stung by Apple's iPhone pact with AT&T after he took an iPhone on a Mediterranean cruise.
They didn't use their phones, but when they got back they had a 54-page monthly bill of nearly $4,800 from AT&T Wireless.
The problem was that their three iPhones were racking up a bill for data charges using foreign phone charges. The iPhone regularly updates e-mail, even while it's off, so that all the messages will be available when the user turns it on. ""
When you go out of the country, just yank the battery out.
Oh, wait...
ccalam - acoustic versions of new songs.
I think that covers the situation nicely.
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1. Travel overseas and rack up huge iPhone bill /.
2. Submit your story to blogs, forums, and
3. ????
4. Profit
5. Pay your iPhone bill
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So when the phones "off" it communicates, and you can't kill it all together by removing the battery?........
Coming soon to the iStore, the iCoffin, a lead lined box designed for when you need to take your phone out of the country, or near medical equipment.
Be the envy of the Intensive Care ward with your small and portable iCoffin weighing only 1 tonne, marvel at its lead casing, lick its tasty exterior and be a role model for Chinese toy makers everywhere!
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I didn't realize organ trading was allowed in the US.
But if phones were actually off when you turn them off then the government couldn't use them as a bug to listen in on your offline conversations.
If the government didn't watch you at all times like that, they wouldn't be able to stop you from doing something stupid before things got REALLY out of hand.
So thats why they should be on all the time....it is necessary to ensure that the government can be effective in its ongoing efforts to protect you from yourself.
Well, hospital equipment already racks up astounding charges. Maybe hospitals should start buying iDefibs and iProctoscopes. Sounds like iPhone owners will probably need both of those soon.
"boycottcingular.com" is now the new "boycottatt.com".
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
But the guy was on a cruise BOAT.
Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em. (Terry Pratchett)
It's so intuitive!
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
1. Take large sheet of tinfoil
2. Wrap that sucker up like a ham-and-Limburger sandwich
3. Explain to the nice folks at the X-ray machine why that suspicious package is your iPhone
4. Be unable to get emergency calls from your family at home while on your Mediterranean cruise
Of course, there's always the simple, brute-force power-down solution: the iHammer. (Can you tell how unimpressed I am with this overpriced, overhyped gewgaw?)
"My strength is as the strength of ten men, for I am wired to the eyeballs on espresso."
Actually if you have no plan for international data AT&T charges .0195 per KB
But is that $0.0195 or 0.0195 cents?
It's a shame the damn things talk in their sleep...
apple fanboys unite - the only product where off does not mean off. Good thing apple does not make weapons, the iGun with the 'safety' that does not actually do anything.
Er, what if its a PHONE and if you turn it completely off people won't be able to, like, PHONE you...?
If you read on, someone posts that the iPhone (just like Windows Mobile phones) has a power-down mode if you really want it.
What other phones DON'T do is periodically phone home all by themselves - and unless AT&T/Apple have a large friendly warning* in TFM then they're probably in the wrong on that one.
(* Do not eat iPhone. Do not operate iPhone while attempting to defuse atomic bomb. Do not drop iPhone onto the head of a pedestrian from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Do not smash iPhone to pieces and stab yourself with the shards. Do not insert iPhone anally unless you are the goatse guy. If you are the goatse guy please do not return iPhone to Apple afterwards. Do not select The Lumberjack Song as ringtone while drinking in a bar in rural Canada. Turn iPhone off properly when traveling abroad. Do not take the name of Jobs in vain. Warning: this booklet may cause paper cuts if mishandled. See page 199 for more warnings)
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
I don't know if there's anything we can do for her. I supplied her with earplugs to fight off the incessant sound of bagpipes, and a can of sheep-b-gone. I did my part... Anyway I'm enjoying the quiet time ;)
Urge to post... fading... fading... RISING!... fading... fading... gone.
Yeah, exactly
May Peace Prevail On Earth
If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
But... he's a lumberjack, so he must be OK.
The Samuel L Jackson version of the iPhone manual:
Chapter 2 "The Basics" (page 14) how to turn the iPod motherf***** off.
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
That would be the human heart. When you come up with a workable redesign that addresses the problems you have discovered, please let the rest of us know.
Just remove the battery.
Oh wait.
Especially in the fall, elk like to talk, a ton. Txting Hi wnt 2 m8 is much easier than bugling all day and night (and you got shot at far less too).
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
Somehow, I suspect you'll have other matters on your mind, Senator Craig.
PC guy here, but.... don't you drag the Sim to the trashcan? ;)
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