Mobile E-Mail - $9.99 Data Plan vs. $5.00 Monthly Charge

My wife is due for her phone refresh, and I am looking at phones with good text capabilities primarily, but also with the ability to check e-mail from time to time.  I am having trouble gauging whether it would be a better deal to get the $9.99 data package, which includes Mobile E-Mail, or forego the data package and pay the $5/month for Mobile E-Mail only.  
I do not have a perspective for how fast the MB's allowed under the data package would get eaten up by e-mail.  For Mobile E-Mail without data, does the time just take away from the monthly minutes of voice? 
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks!

Very helpful - thank you!  Now I am left to decide between the Pantech Jest,  LG Cosmos VN250 , and Samsung Intensity II to meet my wife's primarily texting and occasional e-mail usage with just a basic (non-data) package.  Is there a view as to which is preferable between the three?  Thanks! http://community.vzw.com/Samsung-Intensity-II-phone-p_4763.html

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