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Nexus s without Data plan plz~~~~

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Juyeop

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Hi i'm thinking to buy nexus s with 2 years T mobile contract having $10 data plan. Can i cancel the data plan one month later after i buy the phone??????

Help me out plz~~~~
 
Bought mine at best buy, unlocked and w/out contract for t-mobile. I am on the pay as you go plan, and no data plan-I buy one day passes for $1.50 for 24 hours of use, down side is data is capped at 30megs.
 
Why would you do that... that's almost totally counter-intuitive to getting one of these phones. I get that, yes, you would like to have one to screw around with and to make a phone call on.... but.... why even bother if you can't really use it?
 
Thefoodman52 said:
Why would you do that... that's almost totally counter-intuitive to getting one of these phones. I get that, yes, you would like to have one to screw around with and to make a phone call on.... but.... why even bother if you can't really use it?
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totally agree, its idiotic, if you cant afford a phone like this at its full capacity you shouldnt have one. 30mb wtf is that 5 emails?
 
30mb for me is generally... one e-mail. Lol.

I think I might be able to stretch 30mb over the course of up to 5 minutes though, if I just leave the phone to sit on my desk and let it do it's own synchronizing.
 
AndreaCristiano said:
Lol yea insane
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I only used 150MB last month. Granted, I only had my phone for 11 days of the billing cycle thanks to Samsung's horrendously slow warranty service. Even so, that comes out to just ~15MB per day, easily within that 30MB figure.

There's free WiFi all over the place now, so it's really not that tough to get by without a true data plan. I'd say that as long as I'm not in a car, driving about, probably 80% of the places I frequent have available WiFi (such as the grocery store, Fry's, my buddies' houses, my house, my families' houses, just about any hotel, most airports, etc). A lot of people want a phone that they can use to look up something quickly at home or at the store as well as play games, run apps, and play music/videos. Data is mostly unnecessary for nearly all of that.

Would you say it's idiotic to by a WiFi tablet? There's a pretty huge market for those, and they're really not much different, except that they don't double as a phone, nor do they (most) have optional data pay as you go plans.

Addition: Just wanted to add that with the latest versions of Google Maps, 30MB is enough for full GPS turn-by-turn directions for just about any day trip, so long as you don't make a bunch of wrong turns.
 
quantumrand said:
I only used 150MB last month. Granted, I only had my phone for 11 days of the billing cycle thanks to Samsung's horrendously slow warranty service. Even so, that comes out to just ~15MB per day, easily within that 30MB figure.

There's free WiFi all over the place now, so it's really not that tough to get by without a true data plan. I'd say that as long as I'm not in a car, driving about, probably 80% of the places I frequent have available WiFi (such as the grocery store, Fry's, my buddies' houses, my house, my families' houses, just about any hotel, most airports, etc). A lot of people want a phone that they can use to look up something quickly at home or at the store as well as play games, run apps, and play music/videos. Data is mostly unnecessary for nearly all of that.

Would you say it's idiotic to by a WiFi tablet? There's a pretty huge market for those, and they're really not much different, except that they don't double as a phone, nor do they (most) have optional data pay as you go plans.

Addition: Just wanted to add that with the latest versions of Google Maps, 30MB is enough for full GPS turn-by-turn directions for just about any day trip, so long as you don't make a bunch of wrong turns.
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well that is good if you barely use data and most people do , but the fact that you would have to limit yourself greatly doesnt justify having a smartphone.
 
AndreaCristiano said:
well that is good if you barely use data and most people do , but the fact that you would have to limit yourself greatly doesnt justify having a smartphone.
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I agree that it somewhat defeats the purpose of a smartphone, but it doesn't negate all of its usefulness. The iPod Touch is the best selling MP3 player on the market by leaps and bounds, and it offers no options for mobile data whatsoever. If you're going to buy a decent cell phone off contract, it's going to cost you about $200 anyways, so why not add that $200 onto the cost of an iPod Touch and get an off contract smartphone minus the data plan? For a lot of people, it makes sense.
 
Q, you hit it dead on. I get free wifi at work and at school so having a data plan would be a waste of money in my particular situation. My job does not require me to be constantly online for work and I did not really want to carry a phone plus a wifi capable device with me. I hope you will post soon on your encounter with Sansungs warranty and repair adventure!
 
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