Nope. I literally popped the SIM out of the sunbeam and into Minimal. They do offer a plan (and I even got a sim card in the mail without asking), but you don't have to use it.

My biggest gripe with the Sunbeam was how insanely slow the T9 was. Texting was a total slog. I don't know if that's everyone's experience, I had a theory that my huge contact list was bogging down the predictive text, but I can't confirm that. Anyway, I'd have to wait a solid half second between keystrokes to keep from missing keypresses. And when you miss a keypress in T9, you basically have to completely delete the word as it's impossible to figure out which letter you got wrong. Oh, and for some reason, it would always suggest names over very common words. Like "Cox" instead of "any."

That and I spilled beer on it so the bottom half of the touch screen doesn't work despite completely dismantling and cleaning it out.

I'll say I liked the size and shape of the Sunbeam and I really liked being able to navigate menus without a touch screen. It was also a great conversation piece. But other than that, it was just too limited. I needed a few apps to get by. I also found it annoying how there was no easy way to send photos from it that I took with my Ricoh camera. And I can't view videos that people send me? Why not? Gifs work!

The Minimal phone is hella buggy at the moment, but it's already better than a lot of early review units I've read about, so I assume it'll all get fixed in due time. Most annoying at the moment is that it takes like a full second to sleep, and if you so much as tap the screen during that second, it wakes right back up again. Oh, and auto-caps first word of the sentence on the keyboard also capitalizes the first letter of any password you're entering. The only work around I've found is to type the first letter twice and delete the first one. I have auto caps turned off for that reason.