Data Plan Required

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Originally Posted by p-slim

Since you put it like that then i'm going to explain myself in a little more detail. People purchase smartphones to browse the web at will, receive emails instantly, download and run apps, and lastly to talk and text (otherwise they could just buy any regular phone.) If you only want to check around hotspots then like i said earlier this is in no means what a smartphone is needed for or was even created for. I have an android and i've downloaded about 30 apps, of those 30 apps at least 23 of them use data. You need to realize why and what a smartphone was created for and it should be simple why sprint, att, and verizon require data plans. Correct sprint let winmo phones slide thru because this is a dying os, but wp7 you can gurantee a simply everything plan will be required. There is no way i can force you to understand but you might as well accept it because the companies are making the correct decision. Evaluate if you need a smartphone then decide if its the purchase you want, like someone stated above no one is forcing you to buy the phone.

As I think it can be obtained if you read my post so I didn’t spell it out this way, I'm not trying to argue that there shouldn’t even be a data connection or that there aren’t plenty of people out there such as you for whom a data connection is right for.

My points are simple:

1: A carrier supplied data connection over free WiFi is not “technically” or more better put “mechanically” needed for a very large amount of people to get a tremendous amount of usage from a device such as the TP2.

2: For those that it is necessary for, yes a data connection is great but that this should be a optional thing not a mandatory thing and to force it on those for whom it is not needed is wrong.

Simply put the bottom line is, make it an optional not a mandatory thing which is entirely possible to do without issue and let the customer decide what they want based on there needs.