A wrote: > Hi all, > > I noticed that I can buy an unlocked HTC Android phone online, > and I am curious to know whether Android still requires > a data plan. Early on, one thing that turned me off to Android > was that people said that even an unlocked Android phone > would not function with prepaid minutes SIMs because > the OS required a data plan for some arbitrary reason. > People complained. But have things changed? > > Also, if I connect an Android phone to my PC via USB or > Bluetooth, can I use the web browser on the phone through > the PC, as one can do with Windows Mobile phones?
Some Android phones will require a data plan briefly for activation, as you need to set up your Google account information before you can fully use the phone. For a GSM phone, if you can borrow somebody's SIM with a data plan, use that long enough to activate the phone, then you can switch to a prepaid SIM. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Development Wiki: http://wiki.andmob.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
