The problem with this, is we barely ever us Verizon's network, our phones are on wifi in the house.
Not to go too off topic, but can the Droid work without any Verizon plan. i.e. just use wifi and not make any calls with it?
I would be awesome if we could just use it with wifi and use skype.
I have 2 lines on verizon. One is a droid with data and that's my daily driver. But I have another cheapo phone that is sort of a backup phone. I tend to use it when I'm using my droid as an internet connection for another device or when looking up stuff on the droid and want to have a conversation at the same time. The biggest reason that I would want a dataplanless android phone is for syncing my address book to this extra phone. The smoothest thing for me would likely be 2 fully activated android phones but I'm having a hard time justifying that extra expense. Somebody earlier in this thread said that a droid could be activated without data. Do we have confirmation of this from Verizon?
Yes, the droid will work without a Verizon plan, if you only want to use wifi and not make phone calls.
As for skype, the catch is the skype version on Android is disabled on a wifi network, so you won't be able to use it to make calls, without getting service for the phone.