Just wondering.... how much data do you guys go thru in a month to need un limited so badly?
Here's a couple of quick figures to give you an idea of:
I own a Thunderbolt at the moment and plan on upgrading to a Note 2 very soon. I'm at the last day of my cycle and I stand on 1.5GB used on my unlimited data plan. I absolutely hate this phone, I try to only use it to text and make calls, and sometimes look up forum posts and read articles on the web when I'm out. I NEVER stream any media of any kind, no music or videos, no Youtube, nothing. Just pure text. So for me to pull 1.5GB after what the common smartphone hipster would consider below >light< usage, yeah I need unlimited. Not going to spend the same amount of money just to put a cap on myself.
Now on the flip side of the picture:
My brother got his Galaxy Note 2 around 4:00 PM EST launch day. By 6:30 PM, I figured it'd be a good idea to have him check the Data Usage menu in the Settings app. Sure enough, in just over 2 hours he managed to pull 352MB just by updating the apps on his phone and testing out the web browser/Youtube. So he nearly blew through a quarter of his allotted data plan in not even a day, but in just a couple of hours.
When you have a phone that can pull 45Mbps down, equipped with a Quad-Core processor that chews through web pages and online videos like it's its job, well you chew through data like it's your job.
I am confident that if I am burning through 1.5GB a month on this crappy phone that I hate, imagine if I had a device that I absolutely loved and couldn't put down that simultaneously allows me to perform those data consumption tasks
faster. Yeah, unlimited is pretty much a must for me. And I'm not some 16 year old kid who goes all out with his phone. I'm just a 25 year old guy who enjoys using his phone to look things up while he's on the go.