I really don’t understand the play everyone is giving AT&T’s recent announcement… Sure, it’s a decent deal but AT&T will then rape you with data charges. Engadget picks on Sprint in the quote below but Sprint (argueably the worst of all mobile carriers in the U.S.) offers unlimited data for like $10. Plus, although they forbid using the unlimited data plan for PC downloads, the reality is that they don’t care as long as you don’t use it everyday, all day.

Remembering that are still a few hardy individuals out there who don’t an all-in-one smartphone, AT&T Wireless is offering a package deal where you can get a Bluetooth-enabled iPAQ Pocket PC (either the h2210, the h4150, or the h4350) along with the similarly Bluetooth-enabled Nokia 6820 (pictured at right) and via the wonders of Bluetooth use the PDA to piggyback on the phone’s wireless Internet connection. This is of course in stark contrast to some of the other tightassed carriers (sorry, Sprint, but it needed to be said) which not only try to discourage their customers from doing this sort of thing, they actually specifically prohibit it in their Terms of Service.

[via Engadget]