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More iPhone bill horror stories
At first, we just thought that the iPhone bills were only ridiculously large in girth, not in monetary amount. Then, we saw what happened when you take it out of the country.
While these are not so different from other roaming/overage horror stories, they're still fun (and a bit unnerving) to look at.
The Inquirer has this gem about a man who took a Mediterranean cruise with his iPhone turned on. The man never made a single call while he was on the trip, but by the time he got home a $4,800 bill had been accumulated.
The catch is that every so often the iPhone dials up to check for new e-mail. When you're out of the country, a nice little roaming charge gets tagged on to each and every one of these little data transfers. Compound that over the course of a week or two, and you've got a phone bill that looks more like the mortgage payment on a house in San Francisco.
The moral of the story: When traveling abroad, leave the iPhone at home. I know, you'll have to find another way to impress the 70-somethings on the shuffleboard court, but nobody wants to spend more for a one-month phone bill than a boat trip through the Mediterranean.
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