I recently had the same decision. I went with the LG Cosmos, it had better reviews on-line (off the Verizon site). The battery life is really long, I forget to charge mine sometimes (well a lot of the times) and I can go 3 days with out charging it. The only thing I don't like about the camera is I can't zoom- or I haven't figured it out yet. If you don't want the data plan, you may want to have them block all web or data content. I somehow accessed something (maybe the facebook) and it charged me 1.68mb and since I don't have a data plan, I am being charged for those. I just called the CSR people and asked them to block it so I wouldn't occur any more accidental data charges. Good luck! :)