This is true. This device release is a particularly painful one. No new functionality at all, the other versions of this will have software that goes with the razr2 concept to give you html browsing and a smarter experience. Of course not happening with VZW. Same reason iPhone didn't and won't happen on it. Also because VZW won't step to the competition with it's data pricing-- unlimited non-tether EVDO access is unconditionally $15/mo on sprint. You can only access this price point on dumb-phones via Vcast on VZW and so the phones will remain as dumb as possible.
No, the $15 access you are referring to is if you'd like to add tethering to your smartphone, after you pay for $40-45 data access. If you want to tether your dumbphone, be ready to pay $59.99 with no respect to the vcast or premium data plans you might already have. You can pay $15 on sprint for the power vision data package with dumbphones or smartphones to get hooked up to web, email, and vod/mod on the device. We're talking about a $30 price difference for smartphone data access before we start talking about tethering.
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This is true. This device release is a particularly painful one. No new functionality at all, the other versions of this will have software that goes with the razr2 concept to give you html browsing and a smarter experience. Of course not happening with VZW. Same reason iPhone didn't and won't happen on it. Also because VZW won't step to the competition with it's data pricing-- unlimited non-tether EVDO access is unconditionally $15/mo on sprint. You can only access this price point on dumb-phones via Vcast on VZW and so the phones will remain as dumb as possible.
"unlimited non-tether EVDO access is unconditionally $15/mo on sprint."
Yep, same price as VZW.
No, the $15 access you are referring to is if you'd like to add tethering to your smartphone, after you pay for $40-45 data access. If you want to tether your dumbphone, be ready to pay $59.99 with no respect to the vcast or premium data plans you might already have. You can pay $15 on sprint for the power vision data package with dumbphones or smartphones to get hooked up to web, email, and vod/mod on the device. We're talking about a $30 price difference for smartphone data access before we start talking about tethering.