I prolly will. Ya date a girl for 3 years and you rly get to love each other. Money doesn't matter to me. Its what makes them happy in which makes me feel happy. whether it b items, or feelings.
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Verizon Wireless has very sternly told me on several seperate occasions that you CANNOT have a BlackBerry active on your account without a BIS or BES data plan , regardless of where the phone was aquired. And no, pay per use data is NOT an option , I have tried many times.
I just got back from my store....Verizon is very strict on the matter. They really know how to lock you into their service. You can't have a BB at all unless it is run through one of their data plans. What a joke...Their goes all my fun and excitment for getting my girlfriend one......
With CDMA and no Sim card it is impossible for Verizon not to know it is a BlackBerry. The second they activate the ESN/MEID they will know it is a BlackBerry.
If LeinGod really loves this girl he will take a bullet for her and let her have the Berry and take the Env for himself.................. NO wait , that would be complete insanity.
I could live with an enV if need be. Work would be **** without my BB but it would be possible. Just communication suicide for a few months. I might just end up paying for her monthly data plan. She wants 1 and I want her to have 1.
Now that I finally forced myself to get a BlackBerry with the data plan , only $23 a month with discount , I could not imagine having a BlackBerry without it!
Its one of those things that once you you have it you can never live without it again. I guess thats the definition of "CrackBerry".
I have at&t and when i bought my phone I knew i was not going to be getting the data plan just didnt feel like ti was necessary at the time maybe later on but not now.
Anyway the women on the phone hassled me to buy the data plan for the rebate or w/e but I n ever got it so as much as they want to beat you down to get that extra 30$ a month out of you you CAN say no just be persistent and dont give in to their tricks
So yes you can buy a BB without buying the data plan with it
I'm not sure about your carrier requiring you to have the data plan but with att we are not required to have one. I would really call and speak to someone in customer service.
If the person likes the features, form factor, etc of the phone
GET IT. Even without data the BB is still a perfectly acceptable
phone. This you MUST have data crap really needs to stop.
We are not paying anyone else's bill, so how about letting
them decide what they do or do not need on their phone.
Originally Posted by leingod
Thanks for all the help. And yes, its for my girlfriend. She wants it more for the "looks" and "style" then the power or performance of it. I'm still explaining what a battery pull does. and since its verizon, $99 isn't to bad of a price for a phone that u kno is rather perfect.
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The reason everybody is touting a data package is a "Must have" because thats what the blackberry is......It was designed to be everything it is. A Blackberry is one of the more expensive phones out there, so these people feel if your not using it to the full extent than your not getting your moneys worth....and if your looking for just a phone...there are plenty of cheaper options out there......kind of like this scenario.......why pay 200 bucks for something when you can pay 50-100 and it do the same thing?
However if 99 bucks is the price of a blackberry with verizon than I suppose that this wouldn't apply as thats the average price for phones with a 2 year contract anyways.
Okay, and I don't want to get this off track again, that is just not true.
My Curve cost me all of $65. Not exactly an expensive phone.
And regardless of the "oh you don't have a data plan" snobbery,
I don't pay anyone else bill. If I wanted to use the Curve as simply
a phone, guess what, It would work just fine.
And why should someone who likes the Pearl, or Curve or whatever
have to settle for something else, I think most commonly called a
regular phone. The OP has to get data on
the BB if going with VZW, but for those with a choice, how about letting
them decide what is best for them and drop all this, you don't need a BB
if you are not going to have data.
It doesn't really matter now. We went out yesterday and I bought her the phone. I'll just cover the data cost. She loves the phone and loves having me tell her some of the tricks about it. She just doesn't like having to do a battery pull to clear up space. In all, the total came to $145 after the activation fee. Mine came to $209 with the insurance plan back when i got mine originally. I really hope she likes it and appreciates me....
I would love to know what culture that is! It sucks that I'm only 19 cause I would ask her to marry me. Now we have our berries to bring us even closer.
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