According to an article on the Wall Street Journals Blog it does. Lets take a look at these charts for a minute.
I can honestly say I am not overly surprised by this graph. iPhone users have a much higher credit card spending habit then any one else. Statistically of course. If we take into consideration that time and time again we call the iPhone a “Status symbol”. This means that not only is it a status symbol but the users of iPhone spend more money directly related to status objects. I have no data to back up what they are buying with their credit cards, but I can assume they are buying more “stuff” to show they have money. Blackberry isn’t to surprising since a lot of Blackberry users are business people. I bet if they looked at the spending of Blackberry users corporate cards it would be a much higher figure. Then here we come. Averaging $5,330 a month. Which is still a lot of money per month. Then windows down here at the bottom. I can speculate their numbers are the lowest because of the lack of devices that have been put out, and lack of popularity.
Now this graph threw me for a loop. How on earth does the average monthly bill of an iPhone become lower then any other platform? My bill for unlimited everything on T-Mobile is $79.99 plus tax. I believe the same plan on AT&T is 99.99. What is going on with our Android bills? I’d think it had to do with being able to charge application purchases to our phone bill, but you can’t do that with Windows or Blackberry.What are do we as Android users have on our accounts that is making our monthly bill so much more. The study didn’t account for family plans with multiple devices on one account and it didn’t factor in Corporate accounts either. This could explain the cost difference. Anyone out there have a high Android bill? What are you paying for?
Just some interesting stuff to think about. Are we cheaper then iPhone users? Do we care about “Status Symbols”? I don’t think so. We just like to hang out.
Source: blogs.wsj
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$65 for Unlimited text. web, 1500 minutes, and insurance. T-MOBILE G1
We pay $142 for unlimited data and reduced minutes (we never talk). There are only 2 of us, but that’s still only $71/ea. Comparable minutes with verizon and ATT was around $155-$160.
Well as soon as the true voip starts with google voice, ill spent a whopping 10 bucks a month on an unlimited data go phone plan
Android bill is probably so high cause all the Droid serious phones Verizon has that boost it up.
Android bill is probably so high cause all the Droid serious phones Verizon has that boost it up.
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There is no way that AT&T is cheaper… i recently had two lines with them and my bill would never ever EVER be below $300.. and yes i was an iPhone user… and since AT&T came up with the brightest idea ever; to stop doing unlimited data, i would always go over on my data… but now i have verizon and i pay $200 for 5 lines and i have unlimited data.. yup… so that chart is wrong apple should be first!
As a T-Mobile customer, I also have a cheap plan. My wife and I pay $120/month + tax for a family plan, with her Cliq and my Nexus One. It’s the midrange T-Mobile plan, at 1500 mins w/text+data, but they have 750 for $110 and unlimited for $140.
I think though, that the expensive Android plans are probably from Verizon. The cheapest plan we could have gotten on VZW was $160, and that was only for 700 minutes, $180 for 1400, $190 for 2000, or $210 for unlimited, all with text+data of course. I don’t know AT&T rates offhand, but even though they’re close to VZW in general, looking at their Android selection, there’s not likely to be as many users, I’d wager, so it probably is VZW causing Android plans to appear higher.
Thats exactly my monthly bill with T-Mobile on a family plan for two Android phones + insurance.
I have 4 people on my family plan and it is about $200
The power in Verizon seems to be in their large family plan. We have five people on out plan. Two with Moto Droids, one Droid X, and two Blackberry Storm 2s, all with unlimited data, 1000 minutes, unl. text and 5 insurance plans. Our last bill was around 298. We were merged over from Alltel when they were bought out, so I’m really not sure if or how that affects our rate.
that’s 2 months of my bill, but as I often pay late, I’m often a month behind, like for the last 4 months, it’s reported my bill as being double, then i pay the past due amount, and when the next bill comes, it’s double again.
maybe more android users are just deadbeats.
I pay $65 for unlimited internet on TMobile, and found this duly shocking.