Verizon smart phones with wifi, do you have to have a data plan with the phone also?
larien37 asked:
Does anyone know if now that some smart phones have wifi capabilities if Verizon wireless still forces you into a data plan with those phones? My contract is up next month and Im interested in a couple smart phones and there are a lot of wifi hotspots around my house and work that I can hit off of so I dont really need a data plan and I dont want to be forced to one.
Does anyone know if now that some smart phones have wifi capabilities if Verizon wireless still forces you into a data plan with those phones? My contract is up next month and Im interested in a couple smart phones and there are a lot of wifi hotspots around my house and work that I can hit off of so I dont really need a data plan and I dont want to be forced to one.
Most phones with WiFi capabilities will require a data plan.
Depending on “how smart” of a “Smart phone” you are looking at the data plans will vary.
For Blackberry, you will require a blackberry data plan.
For Android devices you will have to have an unlimited data plan. (These devices use a huge amount of data, after all they are designed from the ground-up to be internet connected devices.)
For most of the other “smart phones” (not really that smart) there are 2 choices a $10/month 25MB plan, and a $20/month 75MB plan. (You would burn through that 75 MB plan in about 2 days on an Android device, and that is if you are *not* watching TV, Youtube, TV.com, streaming music etc… If you were doing that, you could burn through 75MB of data in a few hours, hence the reason for requiring the $30/month unlimited data plan.)
The easiest way to tell, for any given model of phone, is go to Verizon’s web site, select your phone like you are going to buy it.. On the page after you select your basic plan, it will take you to the “options” page. There will be a “data plan” section there for any phone that has data capabilities, and it will either say one of the plans is *required* or it will be an option to not have a data plan if Verizon does not require it. Brian F
In order to take advantage of all the phones features Verizon is going to have to sign you up with a data plan also to be able to get the phone for the price it is. Now you can cancel the data plan a month later but I highly recommend it especially if you are getting a Blackberry or the Android based phones. Herlindo J