The Great Mobile Debate

Once again, I am at the end of another mobile contract and it’s time to decide what to do.  I am currently with T-Mobile and enjoy the low-cost and high quality of service. But in IMHO, most of the phones T-Mobile offers are a little less than appealing.  So I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place… should I stick with the best price and a lame phone or choose a plan based on the phone I want?

The iPhone: 

I’ve been dreaming of owning an iPhone for the past two years.  I own an iPod Touch and love it.  I can do many of the things an iPhone does with the iTouch, but it’s still not the same. 

The iBeer iPhone App

I only have Web access where there is a WiFi connection and there’s no camera.  Furthermore, many of the sweet iPhone apps require the iPhone functionality.  What doesn’t excite me about the iPhone is the phone reception itself.  Almost everyone I know that has an iPhone consistently drops calls.  Still, I’m not a big phone talker so that’s not a deal-breaker.  The deal -breaker is that the iPhone is only offered through AT&T (formerly Cingular).  I had Cingular a few years ago and their customer service was a nightmare.  Their name was so badly tarnished that they had to switch names and hide behind the AT&T reputation.  Here’s hoping that Verizon Wireless gets an iPhone agreement in 2010

The Android

I have read positive reviews on the Android and the commercials are hot!  However to me, the Android is just a wanna-be iPhone. Also, the plans through Verizon are a bit pricey and I’m not sure that I want to want to pay that much when T-Mobile is so much more reasonable.  But I’m still open to the thought of going with the Android and being proven wrong about it being a wanna-be iPhone.

The Blackberry Curve

I think the Blackberry Curve is a solid device and T-Mobile has reasonably priced plans for it.  However, I’m not fan of the Web interface; it seems a bit slow and clunky. 

I have until February to figure out which direction to go in, and have plenty of time to stew on it.  So let the internal debate continue and hope for a moment of clarity on which phone/provider to choose.

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