High Bills threaten iPhone’s US User Abroad

From Financial Times
Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief of Wired, the US technology magazine, has revealed he was hit with $2,100 in charges for using his iPhone on a recent foreign trip, thanks to a glitch that led him to be charged each time the mobile handset automatically refreshed his e-mail inbox.

He said the bulk of the charges were due to the fact that his iPhone was set to check his e-mail account for new messages every 10 minutes. The Wired editor said that he receives “hundreds” of e-mails every day.

“This is a phone that I wasn’t using,” Mr Anderson said. “I was simply walking around with the phone in my pocket.”

(Shawn's Comment: How can the E-in-C of *WIRED* be this stupid?)

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