Vibrant w/o data plan? UPDATE: POSSIBLE SOLUTION

Is it possible for me to put-in-use my full upgrade eligibility on the Vibrant, paying $200 or so with a new 2-year contract, and NOT be forced to get a data plan?

Is there ANY way around this AT ALL? Could I get the data plan, then cancel it? Can I upgrade via a non-official T-Mobile store (rather, its partners) like Wal-Mart?

If this is possible, in ANY way, please let me know. I'm not planning to pay for the $30 bullshit data plan. Do not post here telling me how the phone is unusable without a data plan and/or it is pointless without one, I know what I'm doing.

Thanks.

I think I was talking to AnthonyC about this (I might be wrong). He said that a nice phone operator might be able to let you have the phone without the data plan as long as you pay for some other plan that costs at least $15 per month. If this is true, it works for me because I have an unlimited texting plan.

Considering I have already have an unlimited family texting plan... I don't think that's an option. 

Same here, but I'll probably just cancel it right before and then get it again as part of the phone's deal.

Lol, what's an ETF? An early termination fee?

Oh, sweet. If you try that out let me know how it goes.

I called the T-Mobile store nearby today for some answers.

You CAN switch out the contracted Android data plan for another CONTRACTED plan. Unfortunately, the family texting plan is not contracted so I cannot go with this option. Switching from Android web plan to contracted individual texting wouldn't work either because I couldn't cancel the individual plan (because it is contracted) to get the family texting bundle.

NOW, I just realized a possible solution for us who want a Vibrant without having the Android plan forced down our throats.



As you can see (highlighted with the blue underlining), you subscribe to the plan MANUALLY after you upgrade the phone (this is all online, of course). Do you guys think this would work? Receive the phone but don't purchase the Android data plan? I need your inputs.

I think I'm going to try this out, and doggy at T-Mobile if they automatically put it on my contract. I'm pretty sick of the shoot they force us to do, especially considering their Samsung Android lineup has previously shown to lack support and future upgrades (the Behold 2...).

My Wal-Mart does not yet have the Vibrant, and I was going to ask them for information about the whole process. For now I can't give you any info. on that, sorry.

What are other peoples' inputs on the above method of getting it?