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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
f/u verizon wireless question
does anyone know anything about "unlocked" cell phones. supposedly, as long as i have an existing contract, if i purchase an "unlocked" phone i would not need to have a data plan go with it. when i activate it through verizon, the plan would not be added and would not be needed to activate the phone. does anyone know if this is true?
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Re: f/u verizon wireless question
Verizon uses CDMA (vs. GSM). Only a few other companies, like Alltel, use CDMA. Most unlocked phones are GSM phones that will accept a SIM card from any other GSM carrier (AT&T, T-Mobile).
Even if you buy another CDMA phone, you'll have to call & get Verizon to activate it. At that point, if it was a smart phone, you'd still be required to add the data plan. Sorry, but there's just no way around having a Verizon smart phone & not getting the data plan. Even AT&T will retroactively charge you for their smartphone data plan once they figure out that you swapped your sim from a regular phone into a blackberry.
thank you for helping answer my question purposelyvague.
but since you cant seem to get over the fact that i would like a data phone and that i havent given you a sufficent reason to satisfy your curiosity...
i text a lot. i dont feel that the keyboards on "regular" phones withstand the wear and tear of texting as well as a smart phone. smartphones are most often used for emailing and texting, therefore i feel that the keypads on them are more durable. "regular" phones are more often used for calling and minimal texting as they do not have internet capabilities. i have had a smartphone in the past, with AT&T where i did not need to have a data plan. this worked well for me and held up better than a "regular" phone until i switched to verizon where they do not have the same policy. and before you ask, i switchedto verizon because i had to get a new number for privacy reasons and also to move to my husbands phone plan.
so, while you may feel that a smartphone is "bulky" and useless without the data plan, i feel that a smartphones mechanics better meets my needs than a "regular" phone
i have a qwerty keyboard on the envtouch, but it is so wide that i need two hands to hold it to text. i can text with one hand on a qwerty with smaller keys with a bb pearl or curve.
really, its just a matter of personal taste. i use it constantly to text and id like to get something that i am happy with. i really did like my bb pearl, with att until i had issues with the roller ball. i just cant justify the additional cost of a data plan that verizon requires given that i am on a computer all day and have the internet at home, with no need to have email or internet on my cell phone as well. .