Most stores on the Milwaukee area now keep their feature phones behind the desk in a drawer. So obviously Verizon is phasing them out, despite any comments stating otherwise.
I would have bought smart phones long ago if it were not for thr $30 data plan on top of text and pic plans. Has Verizon compared costs of 4 lines with smart phones with text packages to ANY other carrier? The price difference is huge, and for less you get so much more. May be less coverage...but for those who dont travel much...WHO CARES!
So Verizon, if you want to keep customers who are on the fence with Smart Phones and dont need or want data plans...the LEAST you can do is offer lower data plan options and attempt to inlude text with the data plans. Right now, your prices are insane for a family of smart phones on one account and I refuse to stay with Verizon if this doesnt change.
Verizon, at some point you need to underatand many people DONT WANT A DATA PLAN but still want a high end phone. You've got to find a compromise. The feature phones today are a joke and are already in the junk drawer at your stores.
Store employees are given a much higher commission when they sell you a smartphone and the accompanying data package. As a result, they don't go out of their way to offer phones that Verizon provides them very little incentive to sell. For them, it takes X amount of time to process a transaction, pretty much regardless of the type of phone sold. If they can sell you a smartphone, its more worthwhile.
Is it right? No, probably not, but you can't really blame the guy trying to make a living for doing what his cash incentives tell him to. I would reccomend that you do your purchasing online through the Verizon website, that way you don't have to deal with pushy sales staff who want to sell you something you know you don't need.
Currently, I think your best option for a higher end device with no required data plan are the Kin Onem and Twom.
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Everything from att,tmobile,vzw in the past 3 years has been pushing people into smart phones to get that $$$..
I like Smart Phones...dont get me wrong. The problem is these company's have their head in the sand about the desire for everyone to use data. Verizon needs a tiered pricing plan more than any other carrier due to their already extreme premium pricing.
The Kin and Twon do not interest me at all. I enjoy my Chocolate Touch very much and my wife wont part with her EnV Touch because she hate the current options) But I dont want a budget brand phone on a high end network that doesnt do everything as well as my 2 year old phone does!
Wake up Verizon.
My wife and I each have what I think is a "cleverphone". It isn't a smartphone, with an operating system and the ability to run apps. It kinda looks like a smartphone, has a qwerty keyboard (when open) or otherwise looks like an old-fashioned flip phone with keypad (when closed).
It is the LG Octane. My wife has the $10 75MB dataplan, which I believe is available on most if not all current feature phones, which includes email, Internet browsing, Facebook et al, and VZ Navigator (GPS).
Yes I know this thread is otherwise a few months old which was before much of what I wrote above was available.
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