"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
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> At 20 Apr 2008 03:41:55 +0000 Larry wrote:
>
>> You can pay full price for the phone and buy it without a dataplan, or
> even
>> sellular service.
>>
>> If you think any carrier is going to heavily subsidize any phone and let
>> you buy the cheapest plan that doesn't sell what the phone is made
>> for....you're in lala land!
>
> But it's a bigger problem with Verizon- they won't activate a "smartphone"
> for cellular service unless you also activate a data plan, even if you
> pay
> full price or buy it on eBay.
>
> However, AFAIK, you can opt for a $0/month and $x/MB "pay-per-use" data
> plan,
> then deactivate cellular data (on the phone itself) to prevent paying the
> high per KB data charges.

Total BS! It's amazing how much miss-information is out there.

Verizon activated my ebay purchased CDMA Treo 650 through tech support with
no charge.

All you have to do is call them and explain that you do not want a data plan
and that you want to use the PDA portion of your phone without all the
internet junk. Very simple. You just can't activate it over the web like
you could their normal phones.

No , you cant send pictures then but so freaking what? That's why my phone
has a Sim slot and a USB cable. If I want to send photos or videos from my
phone then I will use my computer to send them. Why pay for two ISPs?