R there any 3g phones or smartphones to use the $10 data packg

Question

I have two upgrades but cant seem to find a phone ...I currently have the samsung rogue...I cant find a new phone that seems equivalant to  it except for smartphones and i never use all my 75mb data  ..are there some retired 3g or smartphones that can be activated with the small data pack....the basic phones available dont look as good as my rogue....is there a listsomewhere?

Answer 1

Which features in particular are the most important ? And does it need to be a touchscreen non-smartphone or can it be a non-smartphone with a physical qwerty keyboard ?
Because of its AMOLED screen in particular, I'd consider the Rogue to be THE top of the line touchscreen non-smartphone. The only other one with a comparable quality screen is the LG enV Touch, but in my opinion SO many of the customer reviews are so poor that I think a person is taking too huge of a risk in buying one.
The other touchscreen non-smartphones that are RELIABLE and just about as good as the Rogue as far as the rest of the features of the Rogue:
the LG Dare, the LG Versa [which is a touchscreen but has a separate add-on keyboard], the LG Voyager, the Samsung Reality, and the Samsung u370 which is a re-release of the Samsung Reality but without the data-plan requirement
In my opinion, those are the only reliable touchscreen non-smartphones worth considering that I can think of. Sadly, the Samsung Rogue is most probably the last high end top of the line touchscreen non-smartphone that Verizon will allow to be released. phonearena.com has two articles saying that there is supposed to be a successor to the u370 coming out soon called the Samsung Brightside or the Samsung u380. Unfortunately there's been no further word about its release. There's a relatively new basic-feature touchscreen non-smartphone the LG Extravert; now that there's a software update out, the customer reviews at verzion's website make it sound like a reliable phone.
In my opinion, the rest of the touchscreen non-smartphones have way too much probability of being unreliable and buggy:
Microsoft Kin one and two
LG Cosmos Touch
LG Chocolate Touch
LG enV Touch
Motorola Krave
any touchscreen non-smartphone released by Pantech
Samsung Glyde
If you've been pleased with the Rogue and have found it to be reliable enough, maybe you ought to stick with that model and buy another Rogue on ebay
To research any of the discontinued phones, check out cnet.com , phonescoop.com , and phonearena.com
As far as reliable qwerty non-smartphones:
Samsung Alias 2 / Zeal [re-release of Alias 2 but no data plan requirement]
LG env3 and maybe the Octane
The env3 has the potential to have a problem of the battery being loose enough to cause reboots; solution is to place an index card between battery and battery door
Octane: when the phone is flipped closed, the speaker for the ringer is in the inside of the flipped phone which has made the ringer hard to next to impossible for some people to hear