16 Aug
                
                    2011
                
            
            
                16 Aug
                
                '11
                
            
            
            
        
    
                4:40 p.m.
            
        On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:53:24 EDT, Christopher Morrow said:
anyway, they do these donkey things because they can :( people have no real option (except not to play the game, ala war games).
My brother recently tried to get a smartphone without a data plan (as the phone he wanted was also Wifi-capable, and he was *quite* willing to be able to do data-type stuff only when in range of an access point because he's in range of one 95% of the time he'd want to use data features). But at least one vendor said they wouldn't activate a phone under those conditions. Anybody got a good pairing of Android-based smartphone and vendor willing to play that game?