Motorola Droid

[jabe]

Amazon is selling the Motorola Droid A855 $19.99 w/2 yr. service plan.
I bought it last week for $24.99 w/2 yr serv. plan but they gave 2 day shipping free. This is not a wood working tool but its a deal U can not pass up if your current cellphone plan has expired.

[twistsol]

Excellent timing, my daughters are all headed out to pick up new phones tomorrow as their Verizon plan just expired. This could save me a fortune.

[cgallery]

But the plans are kinda pricey compared to Sprint. The Verizon family plan w/ 1400 minutes + text is $110 for the first phone, and $10 for each additional phone. Then, if you want data, they charge you another $30 per phone per month.

For comparison, Sprint offers a family package (1400-minutes) that is all inclusive (text and data), for $140 a month ($10 for each additional phone).

So if you purchased four phones and added data to all four, the Verizon contract would cost an extra $2160 during the life of a 2-year contract (compared to Sprint).

[iceman61]

But the plans are kinda pricey compared to Sprint. The Verizon family plan w/ 1400 minutes + text is $110 for the first phone, and $10 for each additional phone. Then, if you want data, they charge you another $30 per phone per month.

For comparison, Sprint offers a family package (1400-minutes) that is all inclusive (text and data), for $140 a month ($10 for each additional phone).

So if you purchased four phones and added data to all four, the Verizon contract would cost an extra $2160 during the life of a 2-year contract (compared to Sprint).

With a Droid (or any other smart phones) it's not a case of "if you want a data plan". They tell you that you have to have a data plan with these phones, so figure in the $30 with it. On the other hand, I have a Motorola Droid & love it. Just still not crazy about the extra $30 I pay a month. But I do use the unlimited data & email all the time now that I have it. I even surf the BT3 Central forum with it.

[tsbrewers]

if it worked on sprint I would be grabbing this for the wife too. i pay $30 a month for 500 anytime and unlimited everything else. Unlimited N/W, texts, web, picture mail, etc. my old touch pro works great on it with no extra data plan charges either. I don't plan on changing anytime soon.

Brew

[aarenlainey]

I bought Droids for my wife and I on launch day, and they are wonderful, awesome, stupendous phones.I've had many smartphones, but this is my wife's first one. Anyway, Motorola is poised to release the Android 2.1 update for Droid Any Day Now, (with two false starts in the bag already), and that puts it in the exact same software class as Google's own Nexus 1, and the Droid has had better hardware all along.