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Originally Posted by SlowToady

This just in...iPhone user and ATT subscriber gets hit with $4,800 monthly bill after taking his phone on a Cruise.

The phone was turned off the entire time.

Apparently the phone, even when OFF, automagically checks and updates E-Mail.

Gotta love that Apple Engineering and Innovation, huh?!?!?!

http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=292751&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=20537695#20537791

Apparentlly the dumbass(es) thought turning off the screen meant the phone was actually OFF. It's not. And if they set the email client to check every x number of minutes... they're gonna get charged for the data usage.

They should have put the phones into Flight Mode... but then, they're probably not that smart.