IPhone bug causes 600mb download over 3G in 20 min?

Hi everyone,
Just wanted to tell you my first experience with unintended data usage on my iPhone 3GS.
So on the 17th of March while in a class i noticed my iPhone was abnormally hot. Thought that was strange but not knowing the cause I waited to see if it would cool down. So 15 minutes later it was still hot and at the same time I noticed the battery was draining excessively quickly, from 70% to 25% in like 15 minutes. Not knowing what was happening i choose to shut down then restart with airplane mode activated so the battery would last for the rest of the day. Wasn't sure what happened until a few days later my account was updated showing data usage of 100% of my allocated iPhone data. The usage was on the same day that the above story occurred. As a result i was charged an excess fee of $60 on my account.
Now it could just be a coincidence that i some how downloaded 600mb at some other point on that day but that cant be the case as i don't download things that big ever. I don't tether it to a PC. I use a PC at home to do any data intensive stuff. I have bigpond cable at home which i connect to via wifi, which is the only time i update app's, with the device in my hand while its updating. I do not view movies or videos on my phone. The data usage was completely abnormal.
My iphone was locked while this was happening, isnt that meant to stop things like this? Isnt there restrictions on what apps can do while the phone is locked?
It was obviously a bug in an app or the iOS that caused it to continue to download junk that I didn't request or need. Is there any way to stop this?
I have looked in to apps like Dataman, are they a solution to problems like this?
When will Apple offer a solution to these kinds of problems?
I Can install software on my PC that would stop it from using excess data. At least allow us to restrict usage even slightly.
App's I think i was using before it happened: Appigo Todo, Atomic Web, Lastpass.
My Bill - 3 Mobile was nice enough to waive the $10 after 10 minutes and then the full amount($60.74) after 1.5 hours on the phone! The main argument i used was that it's not fair for there to be not option to stop excess usage from occurring, while at the same time allowing devices with bugs(maybe) like this to be on their network.

Hi,
in my experience there is a difference between an IMAP
and a POP3 acccount. With a MobileMe IMAP email account
i always have to tap on the attachments to download them
completely when they are bigger than 100 KB - there seems
to be an automatic limit in the iPhones Mail app.
With a POP3 account all attachments are downloaded auto-
matically - no matter which size they have.
I can't unterstand, why there is a difference. That is
nonsense. Not everyone has IMAP email accounts.
And an attachment download size limit only with IMAP and
not with POP3 is incomprehensible. If you got no mobile
flatrate that can cost lots of money!
My wish is a possibility to set a size limit for the
attachment download or a limit similar to the IMAP limit.
Regarads,
Josch

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