Re: What a rip off.....
gerio
Specialist - Level 2

 


gwhitbeck wrote:

i had a thread about this too but i was actually somewhat confused at that time.  i thought the $30 was for nothing, not realizing it was an actual data plan that included 5GB of data transfer per month.

 


 

 

This is incorrect, and to your benefit.

 

The data plan for your phone includes unlimited data. It's the air cards and the MiFi card that is capped at 5 gigs.

 

Geri O

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Re: What a rip off.....
varkie
Newbie

Sprint also requires a $30 data plan just to clear things up.  I just switched back from them after 3 years and they would not sell me a new  smartphone without upgrading my plan first.  Plus they only have a $150 upgrade allowance after 2 years so the Hero (Droid Eris) was going to cost me $325 ($475 normal price) plus the new 2 year plan.  Their cheapest plan was $69.99 per month for 450 anytime minutes, unlimted data and unlimited text.  As opposed to $79.99 for my Verizon plan which had 450 minutes and unlimted data only.  But Sprints customer service is horrible and you get at least 2 or 3 calls a month from their service center in China trying to get you to upgrade your plan or phone.  Sprints network also sucks to say the least.  I'm much happier with verizon.  I tried T-Mobile for a year too, their network only worked within a narrow corridor along the major interstates ( I traveled a lot between Michigan and Virginia).  It sucked having to leave my house and drive the 2 miles to the expressway just to make a call.

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Re: What a rip off.....
bro4321
Newbie

How about this scenrio?

 

I'm a twenty year old college student who lives on a campus that has complete wifi coverage. Hence I spend about 90% of my time within wifi coverage.

 

My original thoughts were like this:

 

Hmmmmmmmm.... Google's Droid looks nice. *Plays with a HTC Droid phone in a Verizon store* Oh yeah I could get this thing; heck, it even comes with wifi. I can finally replace my ipod touch that I've been keeping in my right pocket for the past two years and just be a left pocket phone man!!!!!!

 

Oh, I'm required to get an expensive data plan that I would never use.... or need. Nevermind that.

 

 

Too cheap you say? It'll cost me what,$250 for a smart phone? Then it'll cost me either another $240 or $720 across my two year contract for a service that I neither want, need, nor use, doubling or quadrupling the price of that phone.

 

 

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Re: What a rip off.....
supitsmike
Specialist - Level 2

bro4321 wrote:

How about this scenrio?

 

I'm a twenty year old college student who lives on a campus that has complete wifi coverage. Hence I spend about 90% of my time within wifi coverage.

 

My original thoughts were like this:

 

Hmmmmmmmm.... Google's Droid looks nice. *Plays with a HTC Droid phone in a Verizon store* Oh yeah I could get this thing; heck, it even comes with wifi. I can finally replace my ipod touch that I've been keeping in my right pocket for the past two years and just be a left pocket phone man!!!!!!

 

Oh, I'm required to get an expensive data plan that I would never use.... or need. Nevermind that.

 

 

Too cheap you say? It'll cost me what,$250 for a smart phone? Then it'll cost me either another $240 or $720 across my two year contract for a service that I neither want, need, nor use, doubling or quadrupling the price of that phone.

 

 


 

 

Or how about this scenario*:

 

I was out with my brother yesterday looking for a place where a party was. He had no idea where to look, yet I used Google Navigation to find our way to the apartment at which we had Bud Light and Doritos watitng for us.

 

At one point or another, you're going to use the Data Plan whether it be for a second, or not. And think about it this way: Unless the bandwidth in your school along with it's ISP gives wifi at 100mbps+, you can count on the other X amount of students thinking the same thing you are.

 

Assumptively if you and the rest of your student body roughly share the same schedual, then I would guess that many kids are on that Wi-Fi that you seemingly think is always going to run fantastically. Could you scale that along with Verizon's service and it's 3G? Sure, but that technology, which can send out more mbps, makes the Wifi-and-internet-to-a-student-body pale in comparison.

 

Either way, you either buy the data plan or you don't. And if buying the Data Plan is too 'expensive' for you then perhaps Android or any phone that can give push notifications isn't for you.

 

 

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Re: What a rip off.....
critterpainter

I think everyone is missing the TRUE rip-off.  The Droids are a great computer...But SUCK as a phone. The cheapest phone out there performs more tricks than the phone on the Droid.  Can I get just the data plan for the droid and re-activate my old razor as a phone and drop the phone service on the droid??   All ANY competitor has to do is show a video if the gyrations one has to go through to call from a sleeping droid while driving.....its NOT SAFE!!!!!!!!!!!! My old razor may not tell me where the nearest gas station is but I didn't have to do a cop check to place a call!!!

 

Bill

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Re: What a rip off.....
mofia88
Newbie

You need to learn that smartphones are for smart people.The droid constantly accesses the internet for data. You can run widgets 24/7 with weather,sports, and news updates in real time.The droid is accessing the internet to get that data it does not magically come out of the air.Verizon use to offer pay as you go on smartphones at .015cents / kb.The reason why they got rid of it is because too many customer's not realizing how often their phone was on the internet. I have an eris and it has used 240,000kb in 10 days.I work 10 hours a day and don't have time to play with my phone. That is just base usage for getting realtime info.My droid usage on the pay as u go kb plan would be $3600 for 10 days or about $11000 for a month.I think I would rather just pay the $30 wouldn't you.Great job on verizon's part not letting the customer's screw themselves by getting rid of the pay as you go data plans on smartphones.I would much rather buy a car with that $11000 than pay verizon because I am **bleep** and don't realize how my phone works.

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Re: What a rip off.....
Androidatic
Enthusiast - Level 3

Wiletoo wrote:

The Droid, as with the Blackberry, costs an additional $30/mo?  What if I don't want data, e-mail, etc.  I just want the phone, but I'm being forced to pay for an upgrade to get data.  This is a complete scam and just another way to suck every dollar out of people. 

 

Thanks Verizon!!  Contract is almost up....it's time to switch to another carrier.

 

 


This phone is built to be connected at all times. I still don't understand why anyone would want a smartphone and not a data plan. Just get an iPod Touch if all you want is wi-fi and apps.
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Re: What a rip off.....
Zehan
Contributor - Level 2

 


critterpainter wrote:

I think everyone is missing the TRUE rip-off.  The Droids are a great computer...But SUCK as a phone. The cheapest phone out there performs more tricks than the phone on the Droid.  Can I get just the data plan for the droid and re-activate my old razor as a phone and drop the phone service on the droid??   All ANY competitor has to do is show a video if the gyrations one has to go through to call from a sleeping droid while driving.....its NOT SAFE!!!!!!!!!!!! My old razor may not tell me where the nearest gas station is but I didn't have to do a cop check to place a call!!!

 

Bill


 

 

Um....ever think of not making a call while driving period? It's illegal in a lot of places now....for a REASON.

 

I can't believe you actually argued that the Droid sucks as a phone because it's not easy to use while driving, and therefore is unsafe. Wow.

 

Heeeeere's your sign.

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Re: What a rip off.....
willanaya
Contributor - Level 3

ever notice that the people who are objecting to the data plan are One and Done posters?

 

me thinks there is a troll on the prowl.

 

hey mod, close this thread please

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Re: What a rip off.....
Mochi
Newbie

ailuv2walk wrote:

Lol.. I have a slightly different problem. The voice service isn't of much use to me. I would rather pay for just data and text and a minimal voice plan. Also, why is the consumers still have to pay for text separate from their data plan?


I completely agree with you there!!!

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