Not using Data Service Verizon Treo 600
On the advice of a Verizon Customer Service Rep, I could purchase a Verizon Smartphone and be able to use it as an ordinary cell phone but NOT activate, use or pay for "data services," i. e. internet, e-mail, IM, etc. I purchased a used Treo 600 and now find they don't want to activate the phone without signing up for a new plan at 2 1/2 times what I am now paying for the simplest cell phone servce. They claim I "need" the data services to receive automatic "updates" to the phone. They are unable to tell me how often these occur, what the MBs might be, how necessary they are, etc.
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Am I being scammed?  Are there really updates? Isn't all the system, including all the phone software, in ROM and unchangeable? Can't the updates come by e-mail to my PC and be installed by me? Why can't they give me any scenario of what might happen if I leave the device's wireless connection off for days, even weeks at a time, as I now do with my cell phone?
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David K. Wheeler
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