questions about an upgrade

I have a SE K550i through AT&T that was bought online without a contract. I want to upgrade to a new unbranded phone. This raises a few questions...

1) I have an old $29.99 rate plan that cingular offered. If I buy a 3G sim and have it activated to my phone (new or old) will they force me to convert to a current rate plan?

2) what does AT&T consider a smart phone? I really just want the customization of smartphones, not the push email and extensive internet.

3) If i get an unbranded smartphone, how long til they realize it and move my data package over to a smartphine package?

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Buying a phone yourself outside of AT&T is not considered an upgrade. This would have no effect upon your rate plan. You can use your existing SIM card.

The following devices do not qualify for the Data Unlimited ($15.00) data plan:
1. Any iPhone
2. An AT&T branded phone with an external QWERTY keyboard having either Symbian, Windows Mobile Standard, Windows Mobile Professional or Palm operating system
3. Any BlackBerry device
4. Any data card
The present exemption for nonbranded devices may not be a permanent policy. It could change at any time.

AT&T rips you off!!!
Because, before i switched to Verizon I had a Blackberry with AT&T and I downgraded to a basic flip phone with no mobile web and I was still being charge like I had a Blackberry still with Email, Internet and whatever else they charge and yes I talk to them about it and they said they couldn't do anything about it!!!
How ever the Blackberry is a GREAT phone!
Mozilla/4.1 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; ) 400x240 LGE VX10000

Originally Posted by luker1983

AT&T rips you off!!!
Because, before i switched to Verizon I had a Blackberry with AT&T and I downgraded to a basic flip phone with no mobile web and I was still being charge like I had a Blackberry still with Email, Internet and whatever else they charge and yes I talk to them about it and they said they couldn't do anything about it!!!
How ever the Blackberry is a GREAT phone!
Mozilla/4.1 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; ) 400x240 LGE VX10000

You have to stop using the Blackberry and give them the IMEI of a non-BlackBerry/PDA as the replacement. You can then switch to another data plan or no data plan at all. If you switch back to the BlackBerry, they may refuse to change to a non-Blackberry data plan in the future because of your deceptive practices. (Not necessarily the case in your instance).

Thanks everyone! 2 more questioins...

1) would a touch diamond or a touch pro (not a Fuze) be seen as smart phones?

2) The touch diamond has no external qwerty keyboard, does that mean AT&T wouldn't view it as smartphone?

The joy of AT&T is that they don't need to see the phone to change your account. Heck, you don't even need to call them to tell them that you are changing phones, just put the SIM card into the new phone and away you go.

As for their data plan, it's a tossup. They really don't monitor usage, which is nice. There are ways that you can manually setup MediaNET settings, just google search it.

The only thing is if you have a blackberry. You can use the "data" portion of the blackberry without having BIS, but it runs better with BIS.

Originally Posted by wcjones

Thanks everyone! 2 more questioins...

1) would a touch diamond or a touch pro (not a Fuze) be seen as smart phones?

2) The touch diamond has no external qwerty keyboard, does that mean AT&T wouldn't view it as smartphone?

Yes they are smartphones any phone that has a html browseris a smart phone

Originally Posted by efparri

The following devices do not qualify for the Data Unlimited ($15.00) data plan:
1. Any iPhone
2. An AT&T branded phone with an external QWERTY keyboard having either Symbian, Windows Mobile Standard, Windows Mobile Professional or Palm operating system
3. Any BlackBerry device
4. Any data card
The present exemption for nonbranded devices may not be a permanent policy. It could change at any time.

Just to be clear for me....

so, an HTC touch diamond would NOT be considered a smartphone because it doesn't have a hardware qwerty?

Thanks!

Smartphones / PDA's are called that because of the OS (Operating system) that is loaded on a phone.
IF a phone has Windows Mobile, PALM OS, Blackberry, it would be considered a smartphone.

Just because a phone has a QWERTY keyboard, does not make it a smartphone. The LG Rumor, Rumor 2 have full QWERTY keyboards, but are not smartphones.

Originally Posted by wcjones

Just to be clear for me....

so, an HTC touch diamond would NOT be considered a smartphone because it doesn't have a hardware qwerty?

Thanks!

The Htc Touch is a smart phone because it has Windows Mobile on it.

Originally Posted by wcjones

3) If i get an unbranded smartphone, how long til they realize it and move my data package over to a smartphine package?

They can't change your plan unless you tell them to.