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
