I would like to upgrade the 4th number of my family plan with a phone capable of doing apps. My youngest son would love to play games with his phone and text and call. But, a full fledged data plan would be overkill. Which phone is app capable without data plan? Help much appreciated
I'm most definitely NOT a VZW employee. If a post answered your question, please mark it as the answer.
You can upgrade your son's line to one of our Basic phones that do not require a data plan. With these phones your son can text, call, and also purchase games.
Although they do not require a data plan we do recommend one if he will be accessing data when purchasing and downloading games and other applications. Without a data plan you will be billed $1.99 per megabyte used.
If he will be accessing data occasionally then I would recommend the $10.00 data plan which will allow him 75 MB per month. Click here to view other available data plans.
The KIN phones mentioned a couple of posts back have WiFi, but cannot download any apps. The basic phones noted above can download some selected apps from VZW, but do not have WiFi.
To my knowledge, Verizon does not offer any phone that does both without requiring the $30 data plan. (I'd love to be wrong.)
I wish you were wrong too as I'd love to have my droid active without a data plan. The phone even offers me the option to set it up that way but Verizon SAYS that it can't be done, that the phone REQUIRES the data connection to work. Well, I've got a button in my (unrooted) network menu that lets me turn off the 3G and the phone works just fine on WIFI alone.
Any response JohnB_VZW?
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