Pre-paid BlackBerries and plans coming to VZW in the near future?

Live the nomadic life do ya? Venture from place to place without a care in the world, or at the very least, places with spotty cellphone coverage? For some, paying each and every month for cellphone service is still a distasteful idea. Fair enough. Can’t please everyone. That’s why we have pre-paid plans though, so that the wireless world can please almost everyone. The only problem so far has been that pre-paid plans don’t give you too many options in the way of smartphones and data plans. If you can manage to find a “decent” pre-paid option, they’re still overpriced compared to post-paid plans and give you laughable data allowances. Laugh no more as Verizon is working on a solution.

Nothing is quite set in stone yet or 100% confirmed, but word from a few BGR ninjas is that VZW is working on some new additions to their pre-paid offerings that would include BlackBerry devices and data plans. For now, we’re not sure which device or devices would be eligible. As for the price, current rumors point at the $35 mark which isn’t too bad all things considered. Hardware pricing would follow your standard hardware pricing schemes for post-paid, settling nicely into place somewhere in between a normal subsidized price and full retail.

Anyone out there in gadget land feeling like a pre-paid BlackBerry would be right up there alley?

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