On Aug 16, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Cameron Byrne wrote: > On Aug 16, 2011 9:41 AM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:53:24 EDT, Christopher Morrow said: >> >>> anyway, they do these donkey things because they can :( people have no >>> real option (except not to play the game, ala war games). >> >> My brother recently tried to get a smartphone without a data plan (as the >> phone he wanted was also Wifi-capable, and he was *quite* willing to be > able >> to do data-type stuff only when in range of an access point because he's > in >> range of one 95% of the time he'd want to use data features). But at > least >> one vendor said they wouldn't activate a phone under those conditions. >> >> Anybody got a good pairing of Android-based smartphone and vendor willing >> to play that game? >> > > If you pay full price for the phone, this should not be an issue. Many > carriers price in data plans to offset the handset hardware subsidy. > > I would recommend the unlocked nexus s with a prepaid sim for voice minutes > ... and wifi for data only. Really, any phone you buy free and clear without > subsidy and contract should work fine as a phone with a prepaid sim
This of course assumes you want your service from AT&T or T-Mobile. If you want one of the other suppliers that use CDMA, this approach does not work. Owen
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