AT&T Forcing Data Plans With All Smartphones Starting Sept. 6

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Planning to skimp on your smartphone's data plan with AT&T? Not after September 6, you won't—that's when AT&T will be making all new smartphone buyers pick up a smartphone data plan to go with it. Updated.

We got a snapshot of the email that went out about the changes—read it and weep. [BGR]