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Old Feb 14, 2009 | 9:35 pm
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Originally Posted by MissJ
I have the Bold right now and I think it's great. Bad thing is, I have to trade it for something else because we're getting rid of our Blackberry servers at my office later this year. Anyway, the iPhone is one of my options but the international capabilities are making me wonder. It works, but it's really expensive. I need my phone to receive e-mail all of the time for work and it looks like you need to turn the iPhone off from auto update and only connect in wi-fi zones while traveling or risk a 4 digit phone bill.

Does anyone have any advice on this? That's just what I read online.
Any phone that you take overseas that has a data plan can rack up charges. If you took a Blackberry over to Europe with push e-mail enabled, it'll probably rack up the same charges as an iPhone would. I have coworkers with $2000/mo phone bills to prove it.

The iPhone does have WiFi at least, so you do have a low/no-cost option to get your e-mail while abroad.
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