The people over at 9to5Mac have kept up their investigation of FaceTime over 3G with a handy guide a rough and dirty data usage analysis. Lest you\’ve forgotten, jailbreaking Apple\’s Quattro permits walled garden escapees to FaceTime each other using dusty old 3G, and now we\’ve got some numbers to indicate how much of an impact doing so could have in your bandwidth allowance. A 5-minute call ended in 14.7MB of knowledge transfers — including both uploading and downloading — for the 3G-riding iPhone, which breaks right down to a rate slightly less than 3MB per minute. That\’s not too horrible after you consider some streaming services use that much simply to feed you video of England embarrassing itself in global football tournaments. Nonetheless, we\’d be remiss not to note that Fring does it at a claimed 1MB a minute and sans the jailbreak — but who are we to begrudge having more options?
[Thanks, Sam]
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