"Newps" wrote in message
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You heard wrong.

Looking again, it appears these were all old complaints. I did find
somewhere that Verizon requires a data plan with a PDA/phone. Still not sure
if that's true or not. The complaints stated that they were told one shing
by the sales rep, and another by the support folk.

Thanks for the heads-up on the battery though.

160 x 160 wouldn't bother me. That's what my Zire 31 is.

It does not keep phoning home to Verizon, whatever
that means. I have a 600 with the 10 MB data plan. You can keep track
of your data usage online at the Verizon site. There's no mysterious
data usage there. With no data plan the only data you could send would
be text and picture messages. I would not reccomend the 600 for two
reasons. The screen resolution is bad, 160x160. The 650 is 320x320 and
is really nice looking. The 600 does not have a user replaceable
battery. Verizon has already replaced my 600 because the battery
failed. My next phone will be the xv6700.