Safari bug could mean Massive Data Usage fees for some iPhone users
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A seriously bug was reported by an Estonian. The consequence of it, is face a huge amount of a phone bill for data usage!
If the user visits a site which uses Motion-JPEG (most commonly used for security cams and live feeds, some of blog website) in Safari, Safari will continue to gobble up bandwidth even after Safari is closed.Safari is one of the few apps that Apple allows to process in the background, and Motion-JPEG streams appear to continue streaming, even if the stream is in another tab or in the “closed” application.
In half an hour, this bug can use about 740MB data stream. Ok, let’s do some calculation base on T-mobile in Hungary!
Hungary T-mobile offers 1,2 and 4 Gb internet packages for Iphone users (they don’t offer unlimited package ). If you over flowed your data stream, T-mobile charge 0.1 FT for each 10KB .
- 1025KB=1MB,
- 740MB=757760KB!
- (757760/10)*0.1=7577.6 FT.
- Roughly 757 Hungary Forint = 4086 $USD
Wow, that quite much, imagine you have it opened for whole day…and for a month…..lol
Guess the only way is some one should always monitor the data usage, if something goes wrong, reboot the phone