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Good luck to everyone on minimizing their roaming charges.

Dylan

I do have to say that the sheer mass of applications that use the GPS is really starting to put me off. Where are the damn office apps? And, no, Google, Google Doc support won't cut it. If I want everything online, I'll look at the iPhone...

If I park my car and then come back to find it's turned itself on and has driven in to another car, who is liable? If I was James, I'd go to Small Claims court and let a judge explain to TMO that "Data Roaming Off" = No roaming charges.

If you really want to take your phone abroad and avoid extortionate data charges by not using it as a phone -- and if you want something to take notes on and look up addresses, I'd just as soon take my ten year old palm pilot, thanks very much, or better still a $0.99 note pad and pencil -- then you'd be best off asking to have WorldClass REMOVED from your account. But T-Mobile don't tell you that. Their contempt for their customers' intelligence is staggering.

For emergencies, and ebook reader, a digital checkbook, planner, games, etc. There are many reasons to take the G1 with you even if you don't plan on using it as a phone. The fact is he made a good faith effort to turn everything off and it didn't work. Airplane mode would work, I guess, but it would be a little more dicey for the emergency case since he'd have to go through and turn airplane mode off. Bottom line is if you turn off data access it should go off. This is most likely not a shortcoming of T-Mobile since they have no control over that sort of thing, or of HTC since I would bet the hardware allows this. I would say Google needs to step in, split the bill with James and fix the bug in the next Android update.