To SIM card or not to SIM card?

(edit: since I seem to get a lot of search hits for “verizon sim card” I feel need to put this out there:  verizon does not use sim cards) 

To SIM or not to SIM…it’s an odd issue.

Verizon, to my understanding, has a better network hands down.  However, they do tend to cripple the bluetooth on their phones, unless you want to hack them.  If you live in rural areas, go Verizion.

I’m a little partial to my SIM cards though.  I like being able to throw my card into a new phone and just go to town.  Such as, if I want to have a bigger smart phone I can throw my SIM card into my RAZR when I want to go out to the bars and need a smaller phone.

T-mobile has the cheapest internet prices, which is why I’m interested in switching to them.  Cingular seems to be a good general company, plus they’re getting all of the itunes phones.

The great thing about Cingular, I don’t know about t-mobile, is that if your phone breaks, you can just go in and sign up for another 2 year contract (starting that day, not at the end of your old one) and get the hard core discount on the phone.  Still, though, if I were to get a smartphone I think I’d spring for the extra $200 and get an unlocked one.

I wouldn’t say that there is any perfect company, but everyone has diff needs.

Impressed? Not yet.

I have yet to really be impressed by a cell phone.  The RAZR got my attention because it was what I needed in a phone:  small yet fully featured.  I want something like the MDA/8125.  I have been impressed by their design concept, the basic physical build of the phones. However, I've yet to be truly impressed by an OS.  Palm is nice and simple, yet ugly and just not what I'm looking for.  Windows mobile?  Getting there, but kind of still under the "I want to throw this out of the window".

Once I'm impressed by a phone I'd think of switching to get it, but until then I'm content with my RAZR.

From looks to use

Why do all the things we fall in love with over the preview pics always turn out to be less than worthy of their price tags?  I went out to buy a new car, looking for something fun but still a station wagon type, and I thought I found it when I saw a red '03 station wagon mazda.  I loved it from just looking at it and sitting in it, perfect I had decided.  Ya, and then I drove it.  It drove worse than my old car I was trying to get rid of.  Sorry, I said to the Mazda, but you suck.  I eventually had to settle with a little Saturn sedan, not my first choice but a good one.

Back, way back, in the day there were these things call Hiptops, I was still in high school and I was in love with them.  I didn't even have a cell phone back then so I was content with just looking at the pictures and playing with flash demos.  So when I decided to seriously look at a new phone, which I never ended up getting because my RAZR suited me just fine.  When I walked into the center of the mall, which apparently is cell phone central, I ran over to t-mobile and begged to see the Sidekick.  Unfortunately, I played with it and was not impressed by the OS and button placement.  I tried and I tried to really like it, but couldn't match it with the dream of it in my head.

Now, the question is, is it better to have a lot of talk about your product before it comes out and have people, as they always are, be disappointed by it, or to have iffy press and let people be amazed at how amazingly non-sucky it is?