i know smartphones are the way of the near future (not necessarily the far-future when no one will have cell phones, but that's a topic for a different post). anyhow, i know smartphones are the way of the near future and to be honest half of me would really like an iPhone. if it weren't so expensive to buy the phone and pay monthly for the data plan i'd probably have one by now. but the other half of me is bugged by smartphones. maybe it's because i don't have one. but it's definitely because of the "data plan required" business. if you're in the market for a new phone you have to buy the data plan. why can't i get a smartphone phone and just use it on my regular dataless plan? the folks at Verizon told me it was because smartphones update themselves and need the internet to do that. uh, that doesn't sound very smart to me. my dorky phone get updates and i don't have the internet on my phone.
now you may say to yourself, why would you want a smartphone if you couldn't really use all of its features? good point. but the thing is, when the time comes that i am in the market for a new phone if i don't want to buy a data plan my phone choices are quite slim. and i hate to say it but the non-data phones don't have the sleek design of the new smartphones. and i know they're doing that on purpose. of course i'm going to want great design. so i have to choose between great design + expensive data plan or an affordable plan + a dorky phone. and that, frankly, is really annoying.
5 comments:
Agreeeeeeed! (<<which is how I would have said it in person, because I agree so much!) We lucked out on our latest I-don't-want-a-data-plan-thank-you-very-much phones, but I've been there. What is the deal?
And I'd be curious to know what the far-future holds? Sounds like you may know :)
The other day someone was using my phone and pressed the screen. Nope, didn't work. But at least it looked like it would! I bet yours does too. Or maybe the person was just doing it out of habit. Ha! I bet that's what it was. Just know that someone else is joining you in that dorky phone thing. That person is me (and probably will be for a while).
i agree to everything in this post. i thought maybe we were the last two people on the earth without a smartphone...but it looks like jo and ash are right there with us too. plus billy. that makes 4!! wait, 5. that makes 5! but seriously, so lame. the last time i went to get a new phone (a couple years ago) i could not believe that there were only a couple phones i could get without the data plan!!! i walked right outta there...even though i still totally needed a phone. whatever. i could go on and on. but just know i agree.
Add Brent and I to your circle of dumb phone users. We refuse to pay for a data plan when we are already paying for internet at home. WHY?! Why can't we have a smart phone and use the wireless internet connection instead of buying a data plan? We're holding out until they {hopefuly} allow that, which they probably won't.
I'm with you Kelly.
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