Hello, Kayli! In essence, yes: if you sign up for any kind of data contract with the provider when you buy the phone, your monthly bill will include an allowance for some amount of data use, which you will be paying for whether you use it or not. This is true of all “smart” phones (including the iPhone, Windows Mobile phones, and the new Palm Pre), and it really has nothing to do with the phone- it is related to how the service providers like to bill.

The alternative is to pay for data as you use it, which generally will cost you many times as much per byte of data transferred. Expect to pay something on the order of $100 per gigabyte, possibly more.

The service providers want to make it financially in your best interest to pay up front for the maximum amount of data usage you might need, and then (of course) rarely if ever use that much. So they make “pay as you go” data plans very unattractive, if they make them available at all.