If you are using wifi at home, there is no way Telstra could know what you are doing and bill you for it, especially with the proxy disabled. It’s just not possible. My guess would be that in actual fact you were connecting at home still over the 3G network, inadvertently of course. Even with wifi enabled, perhaps somehow you were connected and browsing over the phone network connection, not the wifi connection. That is the only way Telstra could know about it and bill you. That ‘note’ you’re talking about just means that if it is disabled and you browse the web AND you do it over the phone network, you might be charged for stuff that would normally be free to Telstra customers. If you are at home on a local wireless network, not only can’t Telstra bill you, they couldn’t even know that you were connecting that way.

I thought, the idea of turning the proxy to disable, and surfing the web while at home, listening to music etc on my back patio, was to do all this using my home connection downloads – ie having it become part of my home payments like connecting my laptop to the network at home. Am I missing the idea of connecting wirelessly at home on these devices? Any ideas on how to get around this. I thought I was doing something wrong at first, being billed for surfing over my wireless connection but then I read that piece of paper which says NOTE when browsing the web on your device with disable proxy selected you will be charged for all content accessed via the mobile network, including Telstra free to browse content. It just seems to defeat the purpose of wireless connection at home to me, as you have to have proxy disabled?

Cheers

Good thing is, iMate is actually not too bad when it comes to releasing new patches for bugs in their devices. I can name many other manufacturers who are notorious for leaving their new customers in the dark.

…iMate don’t let me down!!

Have a great weekend guys ]]> http://www.mrgadget.com.au/gadget/2008/imate-ultimate-8502-video-review-by-mrgadget-australia/#comment-821 J-Mann Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:17:22 +0000 http://www.mrgadget.com.au/gadget/2008/imate-ultimate-8502-video-review-by-mrgadget-australia/#comment-821 Hey Mr Gadget...what are the 'official' conflicts? Is it just with IE? If so, perhaps use Opera instead? Are there any other issues? Is a patched patch going to be released? Do you have a link maybe so we can follow this? Also, just wondering if you could confirm how your SDHC card is going, per my previous post. Peaches - I've had a few different Windows Mobile devices, and this is easily the best and most stable I've had. I can't comment on the Q, since I've never used one, though I know on paper the 8502 kills it. No crashes at all, good battery life (for a Windows Mobile device) and the keyboard is fantastic once you get used to it. And although the keyboard is smaller, if gives the device a (in my opinion) much nicer form factor than the Q. Hey Mr Gadget…what are the ‘official’ conflicts? Is it just with IE? If so, perhaps use Opera instead? Are there any other issues? Is a patched patch going to be released? Do you have a link maybe so we can follow this?

Also, just wondering if you could confirm how your SDHC card is going, per my previous post.

Peaches - I’ve had a few different Windows Mobile devices, and this is easily the best and most stable I’ve had. I can’t comment on the Q, since I’ve never used one, though I know on paper the 8502 kills it. No crashes at all, good battery life (for a Windows Mobile device) and the keyboard is fantastic once you get used to it. And although the keyboard is smaller, if gives the device a (in my opinion) much nicer form factor than the Q.

Only thing the Q has over the 8502 is perhaps more easier to use keyboard since it is wider?

@yossil: SDHC Patch Link - http://tinyurl.com/3afztk

It’s now official that there are WiFi and SDHC patch conflicts…