Why upgrading to an EVO when you're not in a 4G Market is a waste of money

[sanjsrik]

I live in NYC. NYC is not slated to get 4G until January 2011. This means that the 4G extra charge of $10/month on top of my phone plan is charity to Sprint. I've read repeatedly the charge is because the device is constantly pulling data (who asked it to, after all what's this going to do to battery life?) and for unlimited (in other words, no 5G data cap, which is pretty amazing given that I always thought unlimited meant unlimited not unlimited with a 5Gig data cap, NOW we have to pay an extra $10/month for them to admit that when they originally said unlimited, they were out and out lying) data.

When they actually allow people to use data unlimited and watch as people stream 100s of gigs of data and movies to their devices, I wonder how quickly this tune is going to change? Oh, did we mean unlimited with no 5Gig cap, but we didn't know you'd actually take advantage of it.

All of which leads me to believe that this isn't a good deal and a bait-and-switch that is going to bite Sprint in the collective butt. They're selling a phone top-of-the-line phone that cannot take advantage of one of its most powerful uses as the 4G market is not yet everywhere. Even when it is, I get the feeling there will be LOTS of people complaining about throttling of bandwidth due to it being used as advertised.

Just my observations.