o2 usage counter

The iPhone's data plan with O2 is not unlimited and if not, what is the limit?

Not sure what a detailed breakdown for data sent and received with the iPhone accomplishes in this regard. If your billing cycle begins on the 7th of each month, reseting the statistics resets the Sent and Received with EDGE or via cellular data access which is most important in regards to going over whatever the limit is for the billing cycle.

Using the Reset Statistics option also resets the Current Period under Call Time.

This is total call minutes (received and placed) for the current period or from when last using the Reset Statistics option. This can be reset on the first day of your billing cycle date or the day before.

And with all due respect to you, I'm not aware of any cell phone that provides a separate detailed counter for billed and non-billed calls.

Agreed. I have never had a cell that keeps statistics that detailed. There is no way for the phone to know:

1) When your billing cycle resets
2) When your night/weekend minutes start
3) If a call in covered under your mobile to mobile minutes, etc.

My best suggestions is just to check the 02 site periodically.

Defiled info is freely availabe on the o2 website.

Why do you need to know call & text usage every day? It's not as it they are charging extortionate rates if you exceed 200 mins/200 txt per month - the prices are quite affordable if you go over slightly.

If you find yourself using much more than those given, why not just fork out another tenner for 600mins/500 txt.

Allan Sampson wrote:
And with all due respect to you, I'm not aware of any cell phone that provides a separate detailed counter for billed and non-billed calls.

Indeed correct nor have I 🙂

Many, many websites are now formatted for iPhone so why isn't the site of the exclusive carrier iPhone friendly?

A good question for O2 and O2 only.

Why does this phone not have even the basic functionality to tell you whether the last call was incoming or outgoing and how long it lasted?

Don't know and a good question for Apple, not for fellow users and not something I care about or am remotely interested in. Are you within the return period for your iPhone purchase? If so and since having this information is obviously so very important to you, I would seriously consider returning it for credit or selling it and using another phone.

Geez, I didn't think RDH's question was unreasonable, although rdh may not find the answer he was looking for.

I also found it a surprise that the call duration counter on the iPhone didn't separate outgoing from incoming. It's pretty obvious a cellphone wouldn't track night vs day, or mobile to mobile, but outgoing to incoming isn't difficult, and other phones do track this.

O2's site is the only way I found to track outgoing minutes. I'm on the 200 plan because on average I don't break the 200 minute call barrier that often. Seemed stupid to pay a tenner extra times 18 months when you might only use say 230 minutes once a quarter (and I could never see myself sending 500 texts in a month). The O2 jump from 200 to 600 minutes is so big as to be a trap for medium users, so being alert and tracking your usage is just prudent if you've just invested heavily in the handset and are staring down the barrel of another 16/17 months outlay.

But as we've established, aside from O2's site, which is not as user friendly and direct as it can be, you can't track your outgoing call minutes. Nice idea to send to Apple as a feature request (via the other link of course....)