By now most of you probably assume that I'm a T-mobile employee trying to drive up sales given threads like this - http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33447 - but for what it's worth, I promise I'm not.
Anyways, reading the above post, you'll see that I got a subsidized phone in exchange for signing a 2 year contract (which I sold for $430). At the time, I got the Individual 300 plan + data ($29.99+$25) and later I decided to increase that to the 600 plan so that until I get my N900, I still have free nights ($39.99+$25).
I called today wanting to switch to the Even More 500 plan (which I thought was $29.99 - who doesn't want to save $10/mo?). Turns out it's actually $39.99/mo too, and only the Even More Plus (contract free) is $29.99. "oh, bummer" I said.
"We can switch you to the Even More Plus plan, there's just a one time conversion fee of $35."
I was pretty happy! Not only that, but the data plan that I currently have is also switched out, so I no longer have any contract with T-mobile, just month to month. To make things even better, I told that that I'm currently just using an old motorola clamshell, and could I just get the $10/mo data plan in the mean time (this is true - Thanks for the delay N900!). Again, they said sure!
So contrary to my past derision of Project Black here - http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...772#post354772 - It's actually saving me $25/mo, and saved me $165 off my early termination fee, in case I decide to leave. The fine print (there's always fine print) is that I "can never switch back and get a subsidized phone". So if you need to get out of a T-mobile contract or want to roll the dice on saving money on a data plan, you might try switching over.
Doesn't Even More Plus plan come with unlimited data? Why are you paying an addition 10/mo for your data plan?
The cheapest advertised EM+ plan that has smartphone data is $60 for 500 minutes of talk, unlimited text and unlimited data.
The OP is 'told' that he 'could' pay $10/mo for data on his dumbphone. Maybe that will work for the N900, but I doubt it. As the famous philosopher Bruce Springsteen says, 'If dreams came true, hey, wouldn't that be nice?'
Doesn't Even More Plus plan come with unlimited data? Why are you paying an addition 10/mo for your data plan?
It's $30/mo for 500 minutes, $40 for 500 + text, $60 for 500 + text + web. Sounds like they let bocaj keep his old $10/mo dumbphone data plan for the Moto clamshell 'til he gets the N900. Then he'll have to go to the $60 + text + web plan.
I got a free touch pro 2 with a 2 year contract and flipped it like you did on Craigslist for $400 to subsidize the n900. I was on an unlimited family plan with another line for $230, but after switching to the Even More Plus with unlimited everything the cost dropped to $150 a month! But then she told me that while it is contract free, I would still need to finish out my initial 2 year commitment, meaning that an Early Termination Fee would still apply. Is that what they told you when you switched also? I'll take the $$ savings each month by switching, but it would be nice not to have an ETF too.
Not sure if this is terribly helpful since I'm on a different type of t-mobile plan (family plan), but I've been (ab)using the $10/month t-mobile data plan since I got back from the summit on my N900. YMMV.
I got a free touch pro 2 with a 2 year contract and flipped it like you did on Craigslist for $400 to subsidize the n900. I was on an unlimited family plan with another line for $230, but after switching to the Even More Plus with unlimited everything the cost dropped to $150 a month! But then she told me that while it is contract free, I would still need to finish out my initial 2 year commitment, meaning that an Early Termination Fee would still apply. Is that what they told you when you switched also? I'll take the $$ savings each month by switching, but it would be nice not to have an ETF too.
They said it would be contract free, and I asked very specifically if that would also apply to my smartphone plan. She checked with a manger and said yes, and then took a while to do some overrides on a computer, so I'm thinking the answer is that no early termination fee would apply. On top of that, the entire smartphone data plan part was waved when I switched to the $10/mo plan, so I'm almost certain I'm wholly off contract. On the other hand, I am told I can't make the same sort of subsidy (at least on T-mobile) next time around [shrug].
The person on the phone told me that the $10/mo data plan delivered different content. Whether that restricts me to a whitelist of sites or limits my speed/aggregate usage/blocks ports remains to be seen, but others here have reported no problems using their $10/mo plan, so I'm guessing it's just marketing speak.
