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Data Plan. An extra 25 dollars a month add up to 600 over a two-year contract. I don't want that. I'm not even sure what it fully entails other than letting you you surf the web. A friend of mine has a G1 and he was able to cancel this by calling T-mobile; he uses wifi to surf the web now. Yes, he can't roam any more, but it's worth the trade off since practically every where you go there's wireless internet available. Is there more to the Data plan than this? And will I be able to do the same with the MyTouch
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You need the data plan initially to sign in and sign up, but then you are apparently able to remove it. Customer service will tell you you can't, but I think you can do it on the website. Then you can surf the 'net from wifi. I personally don't know why you would do this once you've already made the initial investment in getting a big touchscreen phone, but ok, whatever. I use my mobile internet ALL THE TIME...I even tether my phone and use my laptop when there is no wifi (airplanes on the ground waiting for takeoff, relatives houses, commute when I'm not driving, road trips, etc).
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- And the big one, Android vs. iPhone OS.
Basically, HTC smartphones are all using Google's open source Linux-based operating system these days, known as Android.
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Thankfully for microsoft, this is untrue--HTC is still the #1 producer of Windows Mobile phones, although they've claimed that half the phones they make this year will have Android.
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The differences in performance are hard to quantify, since one can't exactly install them on the same hardware for side-by-side comparison. However, Android's marketplace is a lot more lenient in terms of software available, and as far as I know you don't have to do anything like jailbreaking in order to run third party software on an Android phone.
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Two big advantages of android: The OS is constantly being refined and rereleased, both by Google officially, and by the happy lads at xda-developers.com unofficially. My G1 runs an unofficial 'hacked' firmware, my wife runs the officially sanctioned Cupcake that Google pushed to her phone automagically, and we're both quite happy.
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Thanks Martian. This isn't MyTouch vs iPhone per se. What I'm looking for is the most bang for my bucks. I don't quite know I'll do with a smartphone since I never own one. I suppose getting surfing the web when I want/need is a big convenience but not a deal keeper/killer for me. I do text a lot so a good texting feature is helpful. From what I've read so far the MyTouch performs slightly below the iPhone in this area. A decent camera is also nice, since I wouldn't need to carry a camera when I go out. Then again, I may be asking too much for the price range. I'm only willing to spend around 200 (plus or minus 20).
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If your primary needs are:
1) Bang for buck
2) Texting
3) Decent camera
4) maybe some web surfing?
I don't understand why you're considering either the MyTouch or the iPhone. I HATE HATE HATE devices that lack a physical keyboard. If I were you, I'd look into getting either a G1, a blackberry (any but the storm...I loved my Pearl, and would go back to it if I couldn't have a G1), or even a keyboarded dumbphone. If you just use the web every once in a while, a pearl or dumbphone is probably up to the task.
Smart phones these days are primarily designed for the web 'experience' (see: palm Pre--another good option with a keyboard, by the way), and secondarily for email, and if neither of those are priorities for you, why spend the extra $?