UK T-Mobile G1s now have option to disable / forge ahead with data roaming

The intarwebz have been ablaze with unruly individuals kicking up all sorts of dust about the G1's apparent inability to disable data roaming when traveling overseas, and now a fix is in effect for those in the UK. According to an official tidbit from T-Mobile UK: "In order to ensure that customers do not incur unexpected costs, roaming is disabled on new UK G1 models; there is an option which allows users to enable roaming, but when this is selected the user will receive a message to confirm that there will be additional costs incurred." That whole "new UK G1 models" has us curious about the "old" models, but hopefully those newfangled firmware updates brought along this functionality -- anyone care to hop a flight and see?

[Via modmyGphone, thanks neerhaj]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 8th 2008 9:53AM]

This has been in the G1 since RC30, at least. I do not remember not seen it...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 8th 2008 10:28AM]

Yeah- I don't know what Darren's talking about. This was absolutely a setup feature & I remember debating it w/ my wife (whose phone it is). We decided to let it roam since T-Mobile's only letting you get unlimited data & we aren't planning on traveling out of the country anytime soon.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 8th 2008 10:35AM]

True. Unlike a certain OTHER phone I might mention, the G1 had the ability to let you switch Data Roaming on and off from day one...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 8th 2008 11:04AM]

Yeah umm... you wonder if that first article about this situation was blown out of proportion. I wonder if the t-mo rep ever even knew about that data roaming setting... was that whole thing b/c of ignorance?!? ( I hope not)