Use an iPhone without a data plan? (verizon)?

I have a flip phone that has been failing me lately. I went to verizon and saw a very small selection of phones that don't require data plans, and out of the selection there weren't any that I saw good reviews for. I know the iphone is a good quality phone, and I really want to get one, but I'm not looking to spend money on the data plan that I know I won't use.

is there a way to have an iphone and not have to pay for the internet?

If its activated with verizon, you have to pay for the data plan. But you could buy an iPhone off ebay and then you could use it with just the Wi-Fi, this practically make the iPhone a ipod touch though. The only difference between an iphone not activated and ipod touch is, well nothing. But then you can't call/text/safari/appstore when you don't have Wi-Fi. But when you do have Wi-Fi, you can do everything! Just get the app called pinger, it lets you text for free, and call for a low price.

No. You need data plan to use a iphone.

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