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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. ""
I wonder why he didn't just take out the battery.
Oh wait...
Yeah, and with phones that just "standby" instead of turning off, you have to remove the battery. Oh, wait, how do you do that on an iPhone?
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
In your feeble attempt to preserve the Latin plural of 'antenna' you neglected to note that it has two forms, nominative and accusative plural. Accusative is proper when the word is the object of the sentence, as in your post. But, you used the nominative.
I kicked the antennas.
The antennae kicked me.
Note the difference. In the future, please do not hyper-correct for Latin properness unless you're willing to do it properly. Thanks.
occultae nullus est respectus musicae - originally a Greek proverb
You forgot the most important one: Do not taunt iPhone.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
This doesn't surprise me. AT&T / Cingular will do whatever they can to make sure you accidentally get charged for things. For example, on my Razr phone, they hide the URL function in their phones under settings / web access (at the very bottom) Go To URL (3rd from the bottom) and try to trick you into thinking you have to go into their mediaNet (which is like 100 kB of data usage on it's own), which you dont. MediaNet is by default just an accidental double click on the main scroll pad. The phone freezes and wont allow you to cancel mid-way through transferring. Then they send you text messages which are just from wierd numbers which you get charged for if you open them. Then they try to trick people into downloading things and hide the true costs of doing so (which varies based on your data usage plan). Phones with the push to talk button cannot disable that function and yes, if you have the service you can be accidentally charged for that too.
I guess the only surprising thing is the phone bill was that much, tack off two zeros and I really wouldn't be surprised at all.
Honestly this should be a crime on AT&T / Cingular's part if they do not fully reimburse that. All of this "accidental" crap should be a crime. Every time they spam a text message to their users it's like they are stealing from every person who does not have free text messaging. How much money does a million nickels add up to?
Replying to this so I can see it forever,