[Discuss] OT: a Noplan Phone?

[mark at buttery.org (Shirley Márquez Dúlcey)]

On 7/9/2012 2:11 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if an active account is necessary in order to receive OS
> updates, which unfortunately are brokered through the carrier. That's
> one place you might be hampered, or it may just pull them from an
> unauthenticated site. (If you are adventurous, load your own ROM, and
> this will be irrelevant.)

Without a carrier plan you'll have to load your own ROM. Or you can get 
a Nexus phone where the updates come directly from Google.