Might Need An Intervention

Somehow I knew that this was going to happen.  I don't care how many times I said I wouldn't go down this path again I knew I would.

I'm looking at smartphones again!

It's not my fault!  I blame Sprint!  it's all fault!!! 

See, Sprint gives me "new" customer pricing on equipment annually and my annual date is coming up in a week.  And the phones, they are a callin' my name!

I want a new Android phone the way a junkie craves his latest fix.  The problem is that I'm not entirely thrilled with the two choices that are currently available on Sprint right now:  the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment.  On the one hand I got the chance to play with the Hero last year for a couple of weeks so I'm fairly familiar with that phone and it does have some enticing features.  However, I can't get past the fact it has the same old 528Mhz CPU that just isn't really powerful enough to do justice to the SenseUI that HTC has laid on top of the plain vanilla Android interface.  If it was running a Snapdragon 1Ghz CPU I'd snap it up on February 1st (the day I can grab a new phone at new customer pricing).  The Moment has a faster, 800Mhz, CPU but it is running plain jane Android.  That isn't an entirely bad thing, per say, but it has it's own issues from what I've been reading on the internet.  That and to get the latest update to the phone software you have to schlep the thing into a Sprint service center to get the update installed rather than an over-the-air or via PC update.  That plain sucks!  However, both are slated to be updated to Android 2.1 in the first half of 2010.

Both of those phones, as well as my Palm Pre, have a 240x320 screen resolution and right now that just feels dated as all get out.  Most of the new Android handsets coming out have a higher resolution.  I've used the HTC Touch Diamond before and it ran a higher resolution display and I do miss that.  Things just look sharper under a higher resolution and web browsing is much nicer.  Did I mention I miss that higher resolution?  Of course I could get a HTC Touch Pro 2 but that would mean going back to Windows Mobile and that is just something I'm not too thrilled about.  That and going back to a resistive rather than capacitive touch screen would really suck.  But it does have a nice screen and from what I've read the TouchFLO3D interface has been improved significantly on that device.  But it's Windows Mobile!  On the upside, there are a lot of programs for Windows Mobile and I've got a lot of them still on backup disk so there is that.

What I'll probably end up doing is heading to a Sprint store and check out all three of those phones to see if one "grabs" my attention.  There is the Mobile World Congress coming up in a few weeks and there should be some announcements for Sprint coming out of that but there were also supposed to be some "big" announcements for Sprint coming out of CES a few weeks ago and that was pretty much a bust.

The problem for me is that it's looking like there won't be any thing great coming out for Sprint before the second half of this year.  Everything I've found online is pointing to that sort of time frame for new devices that I would be interested in coming out.  That's just too long to wait.

Based on what's coming out on other networks such as the Nexus One on T-Mobile (and in March on Verizon) I would be very tempted to jump ship at this point.  However, I recently added a second line to my Sprint account for my mother and that leaves me stuck for two years.  Of course there is the option to eat the Early Termination Fee at some point if the situation doesn't improve soon (six months or so) and jump ship then.  From what I've been reading at Sprintusers.com there are a LOT of other people feeling the same way and that can't be a good thing as that is a "fan" site of the company.

Even if I do get another phone "right now" I'll still hang on to my Palm Pre if for no other reason than to have a back up phone for those "just in case" situations.  I used to have two backup phones until I paid full price for the Pre when it came out in June and had to sell them off to pay for it.  I could do the same thing in this situation if it came down to it.

It's really all coming down to how patient I am (not very) and whether or not one of those three phones I mentioned earlier really grab my attention when I go play with them (probably this afternoon).

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