I have a LG Dare phone on Verizon, and so does my wife. They are around two years old and the batteries don't hold a long charge anymore so we wanted to look at upgrading them. I just went to the Verizon website to look at what's available and now it appears that every "cool" phone HAS to have either a data plan for an additional $29.95 or a multimedia plan for an additional $9.99 a month. Neither one of us want internet on our phones and I don't even know what a multimedia plan is. We mainly use our phones for calls, texting, taking pictures and playing movies for my daughter when we're waiting somewhere and the occasional game.
So my question is, is there anyway to get around all these extra data plans? You used to be able to get some of these phones without an extra plan but, now they require them.