those of us on AT&T are charged for every damn thing.

I might be joining you soon...

I got my iPad just before my trip to France, so I didn't get the 3G. I wanted to make sure I wouldn't accidentally rack up ginormous data charges.

The 3g at&t data plans are better than the Verizon data plans. $15 for 250 MB and $25 for 2 GB, versus $30 for 2 GB, $50 for 5, and $80 for 10.

That being said, it took me almost 6 months to sign up for a 3g plan. I finally had to cave when we spent Labor Day weekend at DH's parents' house--they're still using dialup. I was twitchy without access.

edit: Calli, on at&t you can disable data roaming or purchase an international data plan (which isn't all that unreasonable in price).

My TMobile account is also unlimited.

Yeah, it can't last.

I guess I just don't think my cell bill is that bad, yeah, it's money, but filling up my work truck with gas costs less than the monthly charge for my phone. We also have three phones on a family plan, which helps the average cost come down.

No tablet here yet, though I'm seriously thinking of getting a Nook Color and doing the Nook 2 Droid SD card trick. Especially if they end up dropping the price to compete with the Fire.

Got Sprint with Unlimited Data on my phone since they had the best deal with my company. Hotspotting still costs extra, though.

I'm assuming the Kindle Fire will get completely rooted within a week or two of being released, at which point I will probably be getting one. In fact, I may get one anyway; I like the Amazon garden way more than most other walled gardens, and find their app store to be perfectly acceptable. I mostly want to use it for web browsing and the occasional game anyway.

ita, if Ice Cream Sandwich doesn't come to your phone, I strongly suggest rooting your phone at some point so you can go ahead and install it yourself if you want (and get the other advantages of root, like the ability to back up all of your app's data in one click using Titanium Backup). It's not necessarily a super-easy process, but for most phones it's just a few steps and can be done in an afternoon or so. The hardest part is picking between all the amazing options that open up after you've done it, though you could always avoid that by sticking with something consistently usable, like Cyanogenmod.

does root mean jailbreak?

It is similar to a jailbreak, but for Android.

Gris, mostly I'm wondering if my hardware will run ICS. But anything that can run 2.3 can run 4.0, right?