Because I have the sickness, I just happened to find myself in Best Buy Mobile yesterday while wandering in the city…
Best Buy Mobile is actually a very cool store that seems to sell every phone and device from their partner carriers. The store I was in did not have Amp’d, Helio or TMO, but Cingular, Verizon, Sprint and Virgin were very well represented. The nice thing about a store like this is that they are carrier agnostic and actually want you to get the right phone and plan for your situation… which brings me to mine.
I’ve been considering a second plan just for data to do some higher speed bluetooth tethering than Cingular currently supports (EDGE) where I live and also since there really are no 3G Nokia’s yet… The N75 will definitely solve my problem when it finally arrives, but who knows when it will really be here so on to explore…
Turns out Sprint will sell you a plan that includes NO Voice and allows the phone to be used as modem which is exactly what I am looking for. The only problem then is what’s it’s worth – do I want to buy a $200 phone (Samsung A900) and pay ~$50/month for unlimited data or continue to wait it out for the N75 and just add another line to our family plan for 10 bucks + data. I actually just checked the BestBuy Mobile site and see the phone is available for $29.99 with an instant web-only price – but you can’t buy a plan without voice…
Why can’t someone just make a 3G modem roughly the same size as my GPS so I can just drop it in my bag and use it for my tablet and notebook…
I still need to check into Amp’d and Helio as well … Anyone doing anything like this?
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