What sort of monthly data usage does the iphone use up?

Hi,
Hope this is the right place to ask this. I'm getting an iphone 4 in a couple of weeks, and have been looking at the priceplans available.
They all seem to only give 500mb data allowance, what shocked me was to read this on vodafone's site :
*500MB a month will let you read and reply to approximately 100 emails, view 92 BBC news stories, and browse around 44 mobile web pages - every day. And 1000MB will let you read and reply to approximately 200 emails, view 184 BBC news stories, and browse around 88 mobile web pages.*
whereas T-mobile say :
*With 500MB of data you could do one of the following (roughly):*
** Send 500,000 emails without attachments*
** Send 1000 emails with photo attachments*
** 5000 visits to simple sites like Twitter or blogs*
** 1500 visits to rich content sites like bbc.co.uk, guardian.co.uk and so on*
** Download 50 low quality or 12 high quality tunes*
** Watch 60 views of 4.5 minute YouTube™ videos*
Obviously therefore i feel that vodafone have massively screwed up on their website there, and am guessing T-mobile have got the more accurate description of what 500mb data allowance can give you.
Just wanted to ask you iphone-ers whether you find yourselves going over 500mb of data allowance each month? I wouldnt be a heavy user of downloading things, but i would like to use all the aps and browse the web now and then like every other iphone user out there, so just want to gauge whether to go for a contract with a larger allowance, and less minutes, or whether 500mb per month is a perfectly reasonable amount!
Thanks in advance

Your question although entirely reasonable, can be paraphrased as 'how long is a piece of string?'
I'm fine and I have an unlimited usage account (one of the old ones that they do not have any more).
I still don;t use more than 500mb but then again I have access to Openzone and The Cloud wifi which covers much of London, and airports. That usage isn't metered.
I have no idea if it is enough for you as we are completely different.

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