Verizon's Venus and Voyager available for pre-order

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Drake @ Nov 8th 2007 11:06PM

Does anyone know if I get the Voyager (my new every 2 deal started yesterday) if I will have to change my plan or anything. I will only be text and picture messanging besides calls. I don't want Vcast tv or whatever the other stuff is and I won't be checking e-mail.

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Matthew M. @ Nov 9th 2007 11:40AM

You shouldn't have to change your plan. It's not in the "smartphone" area, so its still just a regular phone. It has the option of doing much much more, but if you're going to just be text and picture messaging, you should be fine staying on the plan you're on now.

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Lin @ Nov 9th 2007 3:23PM

I spoke to VerizonWireless about this yesterday. The rep I spoke to yesterday said that if you have an older plan that predates the "NationWide" plans they have now you will need to switch plans.

They have "Basic", "Select" and Premium" Nationwide plans. With the Basic, you "Pay per Text, Picture, Video & Instant messages and Pay per megabyte when using Mobile Web 2.0. Or, get monthly packages at a reduced rate." (which means unless you add a rather limited messaging plan for least $10, you pay per message.) Select has unlimited text messaging and starts at about $59 per month for individual plans.

The rep spoke to the data team and recommends geting the $15 VPak if you plan to do any web browsing on a regular basis. (Otherwise you will apparently end up with a very large phone bill. I'm still working on getting more info on what exactly the Vpak will provide).

She also said that the Voyager is a hybrid. It is not a smartphone but because it has a HTML browswer it does not use the Verizon "Mobile Web" product either.

Hope this helps.

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