I got a new phone about a week ago and no, it's not an iPhone. For those of you who know me well this may come as a shock.

The decision came down to one important point: I simply could not justify leaving Verizon. With Jeanine, my entire family, and a good deal of my friends all on the same network my monthly out-of-network usages is usually less than 100 minutes. My total usage, on the other hand, is well over 1000 minutes. It also wouldn't be fair to Jeanine to make her increase her monthly minute allowance just because I want to switch to AT&T.

So instead I went with a Blackberry Curve 8330. It's taken a little getting used to, but I really like it for the most part. My only true complaint may be in how much better Apple has done with rendering websites. Mobile Safari really is "true internet" (or whatever they call it). Otherwise, I think I'll be alright with this guy for the next two years. By then the Apple/AT&T agreement should be over and who knows how far the iPhone will have progressed.