Feature phones and multimeadia phone..new catagory

Question

I read somewhere that Verizon will be doing away with the multimeadia catagory of phone and putting then into the Feature phones catagory...and getting rid of the 9.99 data plan.   We should be able to buy a good touch phone without having to pay for ANY data plan.
Anyone know if it's true about this upcoming change?

Answer 1

Zak wrote:
Can someone honestly tell me how long it would actually take to use up the 150MB of usage? I use their little data calculator and it says for each category you try to figure out for “each day”. So does this mean if I go out to 5 web pages per day I will use 58.59MB of data per month, because this is what the total tells me?
Thanks
Unfortunately, there is no way to tell as various web pages are various sizes.  As an example, on game day nfl.com has a "Scores" page that automatically refreshes every 5 seconds.  (meaning that you are re-downloading the entire contents of the page every 5 seconds, or going through approximately 600KB every 5 seconds (or 1 MB in 10 seconds, 6 MB per minute, just over 1 GB in the course of a 3 hour football game).  The site has the ability to alter this setting (and also offers a "Mobile" version of the page which is much smaller), but since the phones have a full HTML web browser, you could easily use the full page intended for the desktop/laptop users. Streaming music sites will also burn through data at a very quick rate as they are constantly downloading data from the internet.
Many sites have "mobile" versions which are more "data conscience" and don't download as many graphics and Java applications and thus won't go through data nearly as quickly as the "Full versions", but there is simply no way to tell for sure how much you'll use until you actually use it.  My suggestion would be to get the "Unlimited" plan for the first couple of months and use VZW's site to see how much data you're actually using, and then determine if you can stay under the 150 MB limit of the limited plan.  (Especially since going just a single KB over the 150 MB limit will end up costing you as much as the unlimited plan.)