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Kellen

It’s not often that you get to merge personal passions into a professional life, but that’s what Kellen did when he launched Droid Life in 2009. After working years of unsatisfying jobs in the medical and property management fields, he took a risk to try and create an online community while playing with the coolest gadgets on the planet each day, a risk that has turned out to be incredibly rewarding. Outside of Droid Life, Kellen is your typical Portlander who drinks way too much good beer, complains often about the Trail Blazers, and can be found out on the streets for a run, rain or shine.

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  • I have VZW and been doing between 60-80GB a month and sometimes more on my Phone since February 2009 and no extra fees ever just my $29.99 unlimited data plan.

  • I only use 1-2GB per month, and my dad is an over-the-road truck driver and uses his phone for tethering and gets about 2GB per month as well… either way, it doesn't matter because my whole family is on the $10/line unlimited data plan. 🙂

  • For those scared of running over 5GB on verizon (like I was) I have a personal experience to share. I've got a droid 1 and I'm on my 5th replacement. My last replacement I noticed that my battery life was just awful, it was lasting only a few hours and I wasn't even using it. It took me a few weeks before I checked my data usage, a when I did, like three weeks into my month, I stood at 21 GB used! I started freaking out and went to the verizon store to make sure I wasn't in any trouble and they said that I have a truly unlimited data plan and replaced my phone (and gave me a new battery). Hope this puts some of you at ease. On a side note, I usually average about 2 GB per month and do not do any tethering and very little audio/video streaming.

  • Verizon is unlimited, so you don't get hit fees and there is no soft cap, now if you are constantly hitting like 10gb plus you may get a phone call because you are probably tethering, but my brother has hit 9bg just from streaming pandora all day every day at work, and we have never gotten a call, letter or anything, because its unlimited.

  • I've been streaming Sirius XM during the work day and apparently it is the most data efficient app as my usuage went from about 2 gb to around 10 or a bit more per month. Once the football season is over I'm going back to Pandora/Slacker and it should go back down.

  • Im sitting at about 4 and a half gb with 3 days to go until I reset. I use about 3 hours of high quality pandora a day, 4 podcasts updating daily and various slingbox use. I wiped the sweat off my brow when verizon said they would be keeping unlimited plans.

  • I don't understand how people wrack up those Gigabytes. I was using Google Maps and Pandora for anywhere from 4 to 12 hours a day for weeks on end in addition to email, web browsing, twitter and the occasional video, and I never managed to get much past 2 gigs a month.

  • I usually use about 1.5-2GB. As far as I know I've never gone over 2GB, but I brush up against it pretty regularly. Three days into the billing cycle I've already used 81MB. To be fair, I did download a few podcasts over 3G when I usually download them on Wi-Fi before I leave for work.

  • I watch football NFL mobile every Sunday and watch Red Zone from 10am to 430pm and then watch the Sunday night football from 530pm to 830pm and go well over and no issues no charges.

      • Wow this kid at my work gave way too much info when I asked him if he ever used the kickstand on his Evo. He said he propped it up on the sink while he was on the toilet and did something unmentionable.

  • 150 mb is nothing. You can blow through that just web browsing in a few weeks. The only way you could stay under that number is if you didn't really use your phone/tablet at all.

  • It's normally between 1 – 2GB, sometimes below 1GB, but I've never went over 5GB. I don't stream music or videos on a regular basis.

  • I've gone a little bit shy of 6Gb, no issues with service whatsoever, and no additional fees. Have unlimited data.

  • My brother has used 46 million KB, according to his billing paper from Verizon and never received extra charges. It's amazing, I use to think there was a 5GB limit, but I guess not.

  • I dont use as much as I thought, but I ran the #'s for the last year recently for every month and the 150 data plan $15 + .10 per mb overage would save me a tad bit over the $30 per month I admit – about $2-4 per month so about $48 per year at best. Not a huge savings really and sometimes I go over what would equal $30 with the 150 plan + overage fees.. so I stayed at unlimited for $30.

  • Had my Eris for a year. For the first eight months, I was under 200 mb with only two of those months over 150 mb. Then the wifi at work starting hating my phone, so I stopped using the wifi there. Now I average around 450 mb.

  • Constantly over 5 gigs with my unlimited data plan no billing issues I have noticed data slow downs after 5 gig mark.

  • I go well over 5GB every month, and have done for a year since I got my Droid, with never a peep from VZW. I don't tether — it's just constant use all day every day. Actually, I've gone as high as 13GB in one recent month. I don't have WiFi at home, though I use it wherever it's available.

  • when att first announced that they will have a 2gb limit back in the day, my friends and I compared bandwidth usage from sprint, tmo and verizon. that month I had 22gb of traffic with verizon and didn't see a penalty.

  • I'm averaging between 7GB and 8GB a month. I stream music sometimes at work and I listen to a bunch of of podcasts and watch a bunch of video podcasts, youtube, etc.

    • That's good to hear. I hope they treat me the same way. I haven't even tethered once this month and will be passing 10 gigs probably by the end of tonight. My usage skyrocketed when I signed up for slacker and started caching 19 stations on my phone.

  • I'm at 9.9 gigs with three days to go in my billing cycle. They better not try to slap any extra fees on there cuz I see the word unlimited all over my contract!

  • Is 8,646,725 mega bytes a lot? I used that last month. I checked for my cuz who just gota referb og droid for free and Didn't know if 150 would be enough. I told him my amount but I really really like sufring the interwebs more ythan most! 8)

    • You're definitely missing a decimal somewhere there, buddy. 8.6 MILLION MB translates to 8,444 GB

  • How can I see anything other than individual data sessions displayed? Is there a month by month data total somewhere?

    • Call #DATA. You'll get a series of text messages, usually one indicating text message usage, mobile data usage, and often times some ramble about CDMA roaming stuff. Alternatively, the Verizon Wireless app will show you your monthly data usage.

  • I hit 1-2 GB per month at most, so if a plan like AT&T's $25 tiered choice came along, I would drop my unlimited plan just to save $5.

  • I'm at 4gb now and about a week left for my month so I will easily go over 5gb this month. I use my phone constantly and have never had Verizon slap me with a fee. The Droid X is a data hog.

  • I have no clue it's in Kbs not Mb an i am haven't ever figured it out .. 🙂 i would have to guess normal usage…

  • Average usage since I've had my DX is 1.2gb. When I had my Omnia the lowest was still ~350mb. I hated using that phone and I still went over 150.

  • I use around 2 gigs. A few weeks ago I switched on the wifi on my wife's eris. I just checked now, we're halfway through the billing cycle and she has used 38 MB. So yeah, she's going on the cheaper plan. 😛

  • I think I hit 6+ gigs one month shortly after I discovered wired tethering and how fast it was. I was never hit with any fees…for the most part I stay between 2-5 gigs with and without tethering.

  • Looks like I'm just barely going to cross the 1 GB threshold by the end of my billing cycle. I've been listening to a lot of my own music (so no Pandora), I haven't gone anywhere that would allow me to use my GPS, and nothing else I've done recently required a large amount of data usage.

    That being said, I still would have screamed if Verizon decided to go the route of AT&T, getting rid of the unlimited plan in exchange for a 2 GB max plan. I don't care that I don't use even that much, I take comfort in knowing that if I need to use a ton of data for some reason one month I have the option and the right to do so.

  • Go over 5gb streaming radio, watching hockey and football games on my phone every month. I don't know the exact amount but I use but it's an average 2-3gb every weekend alone. Never been slapped with overage charges at all.

  • I used to think that I would need 5 gigs of data, but when you use WiFi mostly, your data usage goes way down (and Wifi is much faster). So on average, I only use aruodn 250k mb. 500k is the max I've used really, and my phone is always checking/updating stuff.

  • My sisters best friend is a higher up within Verizon and I was told by her that 5GB is a “virtual limit.” Something they market so that they could eventually offer an “unlimited” package as well. Not something that you would ever get overage charges on though. Then again, I've never hit 5GB so I can't be sure.

  • Never been slapped with fees, but I probably use 1 gig just refreshing this one website I'm addicted to…. 😉

  • i did a lot of research on the “5GB myth” and that is only for aircards and tethering (legal tethering) basically what i got out of it was on a phone it really is UNLIMITED unless you wireless tether legally.

    most i have done was about 4GB.

  • I use about a GB, but will surely become more once Netflix comes and when I get a tablet and have to tether with my Droid. Then again I’m on WiFi majority of the time, so that saves data.I added my mother to my plan and gave her a Blackberry and she seems to use around 150MB- 200MB. So i will keep watch on that and might downgrade her data to save a few bucks. 🙂

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