Mobile Carriers in the United States

[ThatGeoGuy]

Interesting :
Google Fi  data only...
  SO you are using your Pine phone as a mini pocket tablet, 
    Not as a phone ?

Personally,  I use mine mostly as a phone/text device,  and use the data as a hotspot for my laptop,  I prefer the larger screen for online usage.
  Can you still hotspot with the data only plan ? 
    > Some Carriers forbid hot spotting and tethering <
    My 'Prepaid' service Does allow both,  but the same carrier does not in the Post pay version
 
But it IS about making our own choices.

Indeed! I don't think the software is near mature enough to use as a daily driver yet, and I rely on my phone a lot for work. So I'm keeping my Pixel 3 for the time being, and keeping the PinePhone on data-only until the software is in a much stronger state. I may not be able to test phone / SMS / MMS, but for the most part I don't care since I rarely use those on my existing smartphone anyways.

The data-only option is good enough to test most of the things I care the most about (Matrix.org use, camera, browsing, mail, keybase, etc).