The Propheteer

I don’t really care, I just want a new cellphone. And I want a cellphone that isn’t horrible.
Oh, and I don’t want to have to change carriers to get it. That seems to be the catch right now as the “optimal” cellphone these days is an iPhone. While an iPhone is a nifty little phone and I really think they’re cool, I don’t see it as the be-all end-all of cellphones. First thing missing is UMA, wifi calling using my existing number. A lot of people point out that you will theoretically one day maybe be able to possibly buy an application to let you use VOIP services that you have to pay extra for. UMA is a (currently T-Mobile only) feature that allows my phone to hop on a wifi network of my choice and make unlimited phone calls from that hotspot rather than using the cell network.
Getting this feature freed up enough minutes in my plan that I dropped my landline – and a few months later when I checked to see how many minutes of UMA I was using, I discovered that it was over 1000 a month. Not over 1000 minute, over 1000 UMA minutes. At that point I realized that this is an indispensable feature for me.
There are all sorts of reasons I don’t want to change carriers. More and more I find myself wishing that handsets weren’t locked to one particular company. I mean, when I buy a V-Tech phone, i don’t have to switch to Bell South do I? That said, the new Android phone T-Mobile is coming out with next week really interests me – for a lot of the same reasons the iPhone doesn’t. While I love the Apple products I use regularly I am constantly aware of how trapped I am by their whims.

I had a lot more here, but it all got lost due to an authentication error.
Basically it ended with “well crud, it looks like no Android for DC for another 6 months. screw it.”