I've always been one of these slow mover anti-smartphone people who uses a cheap-ass basic cellphone for text/talk - no data plan. However my dumbass (but generous) friend was just the monkey they were hoping for with this new iphone5, and finally used his upgrade he's been saving for forever to get it. In his excitement, he just gave me his 3GS for free. He's kept good care of it and put a brand new screen on in a couple months ago. I'm gonna at least try it out for a month and see if I can't join the herd afterall. Does anyone know if unlocking the phone gets around the data/plan requirement? I just wanna try it out in general and not screw with my plan. Are there any other benefits to unlocking besides what it directly refers to? I'm on AT&T, same as the phone, so that part wouldn't matter.

And if this thing turns out to be a piece, I'll probably ask for offers as I'll just throw it on Feebay otherwise.