Addicted to Uptime

We’ve been using Vodafone for a few weeks now on a 100Mb data plan.

I’ll just to let you know with only a few weeks usage we’ve already hit 135mb; so my recommendation of a 300Mb min data plan would be a good idea (we’re a bit over half way in the billing cycle); this is just based on my usage so some light users might be able to get away with 80-200Mb.

We’re also testing the Telstra NextG network at the moment using a prepaid SIM; firstly the data speeds on Telstra just fly compared to Vodafone; however so long as your getting at least GPRS speeds using push email shouldn’t be a problem at all; its the always on connection which is required to make it work.

One thing I’m not sure about is why the application doesn’t try to reconnect after dropping out of network coverage (i.e no HSDPA/3G/GPRS etc); this means you sometimes need to manually reconnect to the network to start receiving email again. My feeling is this is a Windows mobile setting and I disabled something when I first got this phone.

Lastly I miss the SMS conversation feature of Windows messaging and it’s not simple disabling FlexMail from also handling SMS; which seems to be the only downside. But other than that FlexMail seems to be real winner in my eyes for push email using non-Microsoft software. I’ll write something soon on an IMAP IDEL email client; so look out for that.