Now I'm really glad I picked up a Charge when I did, I guess many of you will be considering one as well. You won't be disappointed, it may not be the most powerful hardware around, but its still a great phone and it only chokes on the newest 3d paid games, which I and most of you probably don't care about anyway.
Regardless, yes Moto will be pissed about this, as I had said long ago, its only fair to allow all four device partners to have some time to sell their phone with unlimited pricing before switching to tiered. However, VZW cannot make any outright admittance that these plans are a step back, they have to act like its a new "feature". Also, their logic is likely along the lines that if Moto wanted to sell the Bionic with unlimited data, they should have completed it. Moto's failure to give VZW a flagship LTE device before the beginning of summer hurt them I'm sure, and I'm guessing Verizon feels its only fair for Moto to now suffer a bit as well. Remember that Verizon executives referred to Moto as being "akin to a preferred manufacturer at this point" before this whole Bionic fiasco.
But for those still holding out, all I can say is good luck. I've had my Charge for 3 weeks, and I've already used 5 Gbs of data. I download alot of apps and spend a lot of time browsing the web, but I haven't tethered or done much streaming apart from the occasional Pandora and Youtube, and I often use wifi around the house. Its true what they say about LTE using more data. I have dsl at home and its really slow (6-7Mbps down, <1 up) , so I didn't wanna be stuck using my phone on my home wifi all the time, when LTE is much faster (I get anywhere from 8-27Mbps down and around 5 up in my area). I'm sure we'll be able to upgrade off-contract, but unless you grab a 4G phone with unlimited data before July 7th, it sounds like you'll be SOL.
I guess this is why Google is so supportive of Sprint for still offering unlimited, un-throttled data. They promote using the cloud for everything instead of local storage, but good luck when your data cap is only 2gigs a month. Its too bad they don't own their own 4g network though, whenever Clearwire decides to end ties or that they can't handle unlimited Wimax anymore, Sprint customers aren't gonna be happier than we are now.