o_a, you won't have to give up your unlimited plan even if you upgrade to the newest gen. See Jessica's info a few posts up. Current customers are grandfathered in.

Yeah, I have a Verison MiFi unit, and even on months when I've been on jobsites and have used it quite a bit I've nowhere near the 5 GB cap.

As long as you aren't streaming video all the time that's a pretty good cap. Consider that a full CD uncompressed is only 640 MB, you can actually move quite a bit of information.

Verizon it is. Now I have to go over there and pick a phone. And probably cancel cable to cover it.

I was actually shocked that I, who gets tons of crap from family about how much I am on my phone, only used 242MB at my max, and was normally between 100-200MB.

Damnit - I downloaded the mobile app because I couldn't remember my password, and now the app is asking for it too!

(I should be pleased by the security feature, but I was kind of assuming it could just check "whatever account is on this phone")

Huh. Data plan fun facts: 1) we are both way under the cap, should we get stuck renewing for some reason (phew!); 2) I use, like, 8 times more data than teh hub (this does not surprise me. I blame you people.); 3) we both had giant spikes in April compared to our normal data usage trend and I CANNOT REMOTELY REMEMBER what we were doing in April that would've caused both of us to use way more data given that we tend to hit totally different sites at different times and places.

Amy, my usage apparently almost doubled in Aprilband May which I find weird. Also, I use over five times what Joe does.

I had a heavy April, but in my case it's because I did a big road trip through Louisiana for Spring Break (The "April" on my graph is actually 3/15-4/15, the billing cycle that ends in April) and used Google Maps / Yelp ALL THE TIME, and did all of my buffistas/e-mail/etc over the phone since stupid Marriot charges for wireless.

I also had a heavy 12/15-1/15, which was my Christmas road trip. Same thing.

I hit 650 MB on the spring break trip, so can imagine that with a larger, more prettier iPad I might hit 2GB, even though I never stream anything. But I could always have just shelled out the $10 for WiFi in that case. I don't think it's a bad cap, but it does limit the "Everything is in the cloud! Don't worry about local storage! Just stream things!" campaigns.

That's a salient point. In addition, the new iphones (and android phones and the future) will have video chat and that will take a lot more data than my currently simple needs of reading RSS feeds and emailing.

Woah - I haven't gone over 100MB in the last 6 months. That's way less than I'd been assuming. I could sign up for the cheap plan!

[eta: Huh, and apparently I haven't had this phone as long as I thought - my contract isn't up for renewal until September. No new phone for me next week after all!]