After five years my beloved old Motorola Mil-Spec phone finally died (apparently five years with me is harder than your average war when it comes to phones) so I now have a Samsung touch-screen Android. It's most of the iCrap, for a lot less money.
It cost me $25 with the special coupon (it was on sale too, so it's $99 on sale, and $130 normally), +$25 for the increased memory and I have unlimited talk, text and data for $50 a month (MetroPCS). But its' a phone, my Gmail, visual voice mail, WinAmpMP3 player with 8gb worth of music, it does WiFi net stuff, I finally have access to piles of free ringtones (Bad to the Bone for most, Warner Brothers Loony Tunes for work calls, Dick Dale's Misirlou for family, the Theme to Desperado for my GF - her choice - and the 007 Theme for text and email alerts), and it's got a camera (my first phone with a camera that's how retro I am), and it could do games if I did games and just having that capacity makes me feel like one of the cool kids now, and I can do email on the fly, which in the last year or so has become a new 'necessity'/demand for my job - which sucks but nothing I can do about it.
I can get far more Android Apps then I can ever use - or even see a need for. Though I do like the GPS+Maps stuff, that has already come in handy on a bike ride. The MP3 are great for walking (and I walk a lot) and bus rides, the phone part works great and at long last I now know who is sending me text messages. In the past I'd get the message, but I would not get any other info beyond the text itself. I had to guess based on syntax and vocabulary. So I feel so up-to-date now.
