I have an unlocked iphone that I use in the US and China when I travel. You can buy them from Apple stores in Canada, factory unlocked, that work with any compatible sim card.
T mobile offers a daily plan (that's what I use). $2 a day when you turn on your phone in the states, and that includes data (can't remember how much). I loaded my account up with $100 prepaid, so when I hit the US I pop in my t-mobile sim, and phone away. The only thing that sucks is that tmobile isn't compatible on 2,3 or 4G networks (data runs on the edge system). It's slow, but it works.
I haven't looked into phone compatability on the other networks, but when I last checked the other carriers (verizon, AT&T) couldn't activate iphone data on their networks. That might have changed recently though.
I was paying around $500 per trip to the US, and with an unlocked phone have knocked that down to about $50. The unlocked iphone is the best way to go I've found so far.
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