What a rip off.....

[Zehan]

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willanaya wrote:

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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Aww c'mon... It's fun to pick on trolls!

[critterpainter]

Zehan:

   What I was trying to say is that Verizon (and their sales staff) were more than a bit tight-lipped about the fact that you CANNOT use the phone in the car without pulling over.  Thats like buying a new sports car and finding out that...ooops  you have to crank-start the engine because a starter was overlooked.

   As a first-time smartphone user I am not pleased with the phone itself.  I thought I was upgrading my phone and my service when I went with the Droid.  I didn't realize that my old razor was more user friendly---and legal to use on Kalif roads while the Droid....not so much.  And NO I don't use it while driving.

   And I don't understand the crying about data service???  Buying a phone that is the data king and not using that feature is like buying a new car and hiding it in the garage and not licensing for the road.

Bill

[supitsmike]

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critterpainter wrote:

Zehan:

   What I was trying to say is that Verizon (and their sales staff) were more than a bit tight-lipped about the fact that you CANNOT use the phone in the car without pulling over.  Thats like buying a new sports car and finding out that...ooops  you have to crank-start the engine because a starter was overlooked.

   As a first-time smartphone user I am not pleased with the phone itself.  I thought I was upgrading my phone and my service when I went with the Droid.  I didn't realize that my old razor was more user friendly---and legal to use on Kalif roads while the Droid....not so much.  And NO I don't use it while driving.

   And I don't understand the crying about data service???  Buying a phone that is the data king and not using that feature is like buying a new car and hiding it in the garage and not licensing for the road.

Bill

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You have been awarded 10 points.

[ACTrack03]

Wow there is a lot of crying in this thread.  If you don't see the need for a data plan with this phone then you have no idea what the Droid is all about.  It is a mobile mulit-media/information resource with a phone feature.  I do agree that it is also a phone and has to act as such but the phone portion is only a small piece of it's capabilities.  I inderstand that when you multiply $30 a month by 24 months is $720 but for what that gives you, thats cheap in my book.  I didn't even bat an eye when they told me how much the data plan was going to run me even back on my Moto Q or my BB storm and that $45 back then for unlimited data didn't get me as much as the $30 data package for the Droid can deliver(because of the number of things you can do with the Droid that you can't with the other phones). 

[GreySeal]

I don't usually bother with these type of threads, but what the heck....

Some people you just cannot please no matter what you do.  I have lived long enough to have figured that out.  Normally, it's just  'water off a duck's back' to me.  Just for grins, though, I thought I'd chime in.

There are some people that, if you gave them a phone with a 650 gigahertz processor, 64 gig of computational ram, with  a 3 terabyte SSD drive and a 4" display with 2000x1000 resolution, that cost them $1.00 a month without a contract and unlimited dual T3 connections, only weighed 2 ounces, and was waterproof to 300 feet, they would complain that it was a **bleep** and someone was trying to rip them off because it didn't come with a free toaster as a signing bonus.

(ducking for cover) 

[supitsmike]

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GreySeal wrote:

I don't usually bother with these type of threads, but what the heck....

Some people you just cannot please no matter what you do.  I have lived long enough to have figured that out.  Normally, it's just  'water off a duck's back' to me.  Just for grins, though, I thought I'd chime in.

There are some people that, if you gave them a phone with a 650 gigahertz processor, 64 gig of computational ram, with  a 3 terabyte SSD drive and a 4" display with 2000x1000 resolution, that cost them $1.00 a month without a contract and unlimited dual T3 connections, only weighed 2 ounces, and was waterproof to 300 feet, they would complain that it was a **bleep** and someone was trying to rip them off because it didn't come with a free toaster as a signing bonus.

(ducking for cover) 

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How dare they challenge my bread toasting experience?!

[innocent93]

Verizon isn't doing anything that Alltel didn't do. With Alltel , when I had regular  cells on the family plan.

It was $10 a month for the second phone. When we purchased smartphones. Alltel charged an extra $20 per phone

per month.

Verizon is $10 more  per line. Yes, it's more expensive than Alltel. .. Alltel wasn't giving you data at no charge.

[hol_eliz]

Clearly those of you complaining about data plans on smartphones don't understand the whole concept behind smartphones.  They use DATA surprise surprise.  Even texting is data. If you paid PER MB you are looking at a couple hundred dollars per browsing session.  Downloading a single email can burn up a lot of data.  Imagine that several times a day, week and month.   A Blackberry, Palm, Droid, Windows phone etc is USELESS without data.  Whats the status symbol of whipping out a Blackberry or Droid really gonna do for you if all you can do is call on it?  If thats all you want to pay for, get a simple feature phone.

[hol_eliz]

The old connect plan is for browsers that aren't a full html browser.  Like the Voyager, Envy phones, Rogue, Alias2 etc.  Blackberrys, Droids, SMARTphones offer a full browsing experience, like having a mini computer in the palm of your hand.  Hence the  need for the unlimited data plan.

[#10]

A Droid without a data plan makes no sense at all.  Just buy a regular phone.