data plan confusion
I don't understand the difference in an unlimited data plan, and web and email data plan (besides the cost that is).
What is the difference? How shall I determine what fits my needs best?
Thx,
Joey
What is the difference? How shall I determine what fits my needs best?
Thx,
Joey
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$44.99 Unlimited Data for Blackberries includes Blackberry Enterprise Service provisioning. For PDA/smartphones it included Wireless Sync. I do not know if they still offer support Wireless Sync these days. Seems I heard Nokia/Intellisync was discontinuing it.
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Thank you, but I am not considering a Blackberry, rather, I am looking at the Droid and am being offered two types of data plants...what is the difference?
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One is for business users (Unlimited data). The PDA Data 29.99 is still unlimited data. Lets just say, you won't need the Unlimited 44.99 data unless you are with a big business and need corp email on your phone. Most people use the 29.99 data plan. It' still unlimited email and data.
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Ok,I want to ask, What's the difference between smartphone/pda data plan and the connect plan unlimited data? Why can't i activate a pda on my connect plan? I have unlimited data.
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Because the connect plan is unlimited data for regular phones (non smart phones, pdas or blackberrys)
The smart phone catagory requires the $29 plan because they use a TON more data then a regular phone could ever hope to use.
The smart phone catagory requires the $29 plan because they use a TON more data then a regular phone could ever hope to use.
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Connect plan is like gasoline for your car.
Smartphone plan is like fuel for your jet.
You wouldn't put jet fuel in your car, just as you wouldn't put gasoline in your jet.
OK, so maybe the analogy is a bit weak. Imagine you have a phone that gets online when you click on the web, and when you click on something else it gets off the web. Most likely, you're surfing at a decent speed. Your emails are checked for you by a program that checks in every 30 minutes. This is the connect plan.
Now, imagine your phone being online all day, all the time. You show up on your favorite IM client all day long. Your emails come within minutes, sometimes even mere seconds, all on it's own. You can download applications that also use the w...
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Smartphone plan is like fuel for your jet.
You wouldn't put jet fuel in your car, just as you wouldn't put gasoline in your jet.
OK, so maybe the analogy is a bit weak. Imagine you have a phone that gets online when you click on the web, and when you click on something else it gets off the web. Most likely, you're surfing at a decent speed. Your emails are checked for you by a program that checks in every 30 minutes. This is the connect plan.
Now, imagine your phone being online all day, all the time. You show up on your favorite IM client all day long. Your emails come within minutes, sometimes even mere seconds, all on it's own. You can download applications that also use the w...
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Connect Plan (Non-smartphone) - $10
Web/Email Plan (smartphone) - $29.99
They charge a different rate because you are far more capable of using a larger portion of data services though a smartphone than you possibly could with a non-smartphone. Does that mean you necessarily will? No. You are just more capable.
Web/Email Plan (smartphone) - $29.99
They charge a different rate because you are far more capable of using a larger portion of data services though a smartphone than you possibly could with a non-smartphone. Does that mean you necessarily will? No. You are just more capable.
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I was just thrown off by the word "Unlimited". I guess my definition of endless or with out limits is incorrect. Apparently there are limits. There is a limit that a non-smart phone has versus the limit of a smart phone. Therefore, unlimited doesn't mean unlimited, because if it truely did, it wouldn't matter what type of phone you use because it's UNLIMITED.
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Yeah, it's confusing. It would be better I think for Verizon to give the data plans names that reflected different levels of bandwidth instead of usage. ISPs don't label their internet plans "unlimited" because they are all unlimited. Instead they label them based on speed. In Verizon's case they could label the plans based on category of supported phone. You get the idea.
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