Thinking about a Droid 1 for pp as a secondary, non-data phone

[preslove]

So, my T-Mobile plan is almost to the $50 etf point, and I've been thinking about prepaid options. I really like the 5gig $30 Tmobile plan, but it only has 100 minutes free, and 10 cents per on top. I've been thinking of going tmobile prepaid and also getting a flip phone on Page Plus for voice and tying the two phones to a Google Voice number.

I don't have a land line, so the idea of having 2 phones is kind of appealing. And, given my current voice usage, the pp plan would last over 6 months, leading to a total monthly cost of $42 or less. The one nagging thought is that having the flip phone means that my outgoing calls will appear as a different number to whoever I'm calling. I figure this might be a little confusing.

I noticed, however, that new Droid 1's are going for $117 on Amazon. I'm wondering if I can turn off the data connection on the Droid, wifi and the google voice app for texting and using my google voice # on outgoing calls. Given that I have wifi at work and home, I figure that my texting and calls will be mostly covered, and my vibrant even has the mobile wifi hotspot feature on by default.

Couple of questions:

How easy is it to turn of the Droid's Data?

Can the Droid run google voice well?

What apps (other than 3d games. I'm not interested in them) won't a droid 1 be able to use?

 

[Lyfer]

Droid 1 is slow. I went from a Droid X (similar phone minus the KB) to an Iphone 4S and the performance was like going from b&w to color tv. You would prolly want to root it to maximize the performance. I gave my Droid X to my younger brother he complains all the time about how laggy it is for video/games. But thats prolly because all the new apps are optimized for the new dual core phones (and the gpu on the Droid x is very dated). I think you would be better off getting a flip phone and a 7" tablet imo or forking up the $$$ and moving to a new dual core LTE phone.

Oh and the battery life on my Droid X sucked as well, not sure how the Droid 1's is.

 

[MDE]

Droid 1 is slow. I went from a Droid X (similar phone minus the KB) to an Iphone 4S and the performance was like going from b&w to color tv. You would prolly want to root it to maximize the performance. I gave my Droid X to my younger brother he complains all the time about how laggy it is for video/games. But thats prolly because all the new apps are optimized for the new dual core phones (and the gpu on the Droid x is very dated). I think you would be better off getting a flip phone and a 7" tablet imo or forking up the $$$ and moving to a new dual core LTE phone.

Oh and the battery life on my Droid X sucked as well, not sure how the Droid 1's is.

Droid X is faster than the Droid. My Droid's battery life is much better after turning off the cell radio. Just set it to airplane mode and turn WiFi on.