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My lovely hubby has bought me a tablet for christmas and for the most part i will just connect to the household Wifi but if we go away i plan on getting a Giffgaff data sim but would 1GB be enough ?
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How much data do you use? How long is a piece of string? Is it a tablet that can have a sim card inserted?YNWA
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Emails, updating apps, casual browsing, probably.
Watching or downloading films/TV/video it'll run out in a couple of hours depending on the quality (bitrate).
It's impossible to answer as it's all about how you use the device!0 -
1GB is roughly 1.5hrs of BBC iPlayer streaming...
Or a eighth of an uncompressed dual-layer DVD...
Or a third of the Windows 10 ISO image...
Or 25 MP3 albums...
Or about 1,099,511,600,000 characters of plain-text emails. That's 157,073,089,682 words (based on an average word length of 7 characters including spaces).0 -
1GB is roughly 1.5hrs of BBC iPlayer streaming...
Or a eighth of an uncompressed dual-layer DVD...
Or a third of the Windows 10 ISO image...
Or 25 MP3 albums...
Or about 1,099,511,600,000 characters of plain-text emails. That's 157,073,089,682 words (based on an average word length of 7 characters including spaces).🍺 😎 Still grumpy, and No, Cloudflare I am NOT a robot 🤖BUT my responses are now out of my control they are posted via ChatGPT or the latest AI0 -
Don't forget you can get free Wifi when you're out in certain places, especially if you have Sky/BT at home you can usually use their cloud services when out.
I would say 1GB should be ok as long as you're not streaming all the time when you're not on Wifi. It should be fine for general Facebook browsing/emails/maps.etc0 -
debitcardmayhem wrote: »Maths lesson needed :rotfl:
Ohh.... did I get that wrong? D'oh! Let's try again:
1GB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes
So that's 153,391,689 words.
(Did I get it right that time?!)0 -
Ohh.... did I get that wrong? D'oh! Let's try again:
1GB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes
So that's 153,391,689 words.
(Did I get it right that time?!)🍺 😎 Still grumpy, and No, Cloudflare I am NOT a robot 🤖BUT my responses are now out of my control they are posted via ChatGPT or the latest AI0 -
I had a giffgaff sim in my tablet last year , the download speed on gigggaff was rather slow compared to other networksSave a Rachael
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If you don't plan on going away lots (and don't expect to do much video streaming when away - just browsing, emails etc) then just tether it to your phone. Will be far cheaper than a rolling contract - and if you run out of data then you can usually buy an add on for the month.
If you plan on streaming lots then 1gb won't be enough.0 -
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