I work at an electronics store that sells cell phones, data devices, etc. A few days ago a customer came into my store to buy a prepaid air time card for his htc touch, I found that kind of funny that he would have such a device on a pay as you go package. What's the freakin point! Lol. I found it amusing.

Wirelessly posted (off to see the wizard)

Many do this

See it all the time in the ATT I work at

Status is the only reason I can come up with

That looks about normal to me. I would never do it though.

I was looking at the HTC "phones"...

decided against as it's f'in MS Windows...

No contract is my guess