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I need to replace my phone. Like seriously. So sick of dropped calls, mediocre sound quality and mediocre-at-best apps on my Centro. Considering alternatives. I'd been mainly looking at the iphone and droid and had mostly decided on the droid because it's a relatively open platform (so, you know, I can have another dev project to spend my free time on, cause I totally need that...) has a physical keyboard and I guess I'd just like to support Android if I can (though even then, "Go open source!" is duking it out with "Dude, the ubiquity of Google is getting creepy..." in my head) but... honestly, the more I think about it, I wonder whether a droid might be overkill. The main things I do on my phone are (in rough order of frequency/importance):

- Phone calls
- Text
- Take notes
- Tell the calendar to beep me when I have a meeting
- Gmail and Twitter
- Other sites very rarely, like when I reeeally need to search for something and I'm on the road

For some reason I'd never really seriously considered the Blackberry, but With the exception of the last two, these are all things I'm told they excel at. Anyone have a bb and want to try and sell me on it? If it does the first four better than the droid (or if the price difference is enough to outweigh any performance differences) and it does the web stuff decently, I'd at least consider it. It seems I could probably get a BB much cheaper and without going through the hassle of getting a contract with a new carrier.

My biggest concern about the Droid is actually that it might have too many features. Right now my Centro is almost good enough. The Droid/iphone/etc have a lot of cool apps that I don't even know about, and I'm sure they'll be so cool that they'll up my minimum requirements for what I feel like I "need" in a phone (remember way back when that list was: "phone"?), and, eh, I just don't know if I want to go there. I don't currently use my phone for games, or to dynamically overlay information from the internet over a realtime video feed from my camera (yes, there's a Droid app that does that!), and as cool as that is... Idunno. My life doesn't need more bells and whistles right now (then again, that is really damn cool..). Plus I'm considering just buying the phone outright so I don't have to get a contract even if I do change providers (is that even possible?), and the Droid is $500+... for a phone. Yeeps.

Anyway, anyone care to comment?

California People. Early warning of plans in your vicinity.

I am going to be in CA for slyviolet and wyldelf's Grand and Glorious Celebration Of Nuptuality (which happens to be planned for my birthday-- what an awesome present!). I figure I'll fly in on Friday 2 Apr and out Sat 10 Apr.

I will, of course, wish to see all of you. Together, we shall do Stuff. Mayhem shall ensue and a good time shall be had by all. You have been warned.

...and on that note, anything (else) going on that week what I should know about? I'll post again closer to the date, but hey can't hurt to get on people's calendars now. :)