My T-Mobile contract is up for renewal (we still cannot exactly agree as to WHEN – all I know it’s somewhere between December and February) and as such, I want a new phone.
I MAY still stick with T-Mobile providing they promise to brush up their act (the most recent frustration was that their web site wouldn’t allow me to disable the Flex-T alerts, the last one was sent out around 4am and when you’re on-call, being woken up at 4am to be told I have X number of minutes left in my allowance does not strike me as being terribly competent!). But I may go with O2 (despite the iPhone being offered by multiple vendors now – with O2 I’d have the confidence that they’ve had the phone on their network for some time and therefore now what they’re doing).
Depending on how O2′s contract and the iPhone selection pans out, I may just stick with T-Mobile and go with either a Blackberry Bold 9700 or a Sony Ericsson touch-screen Satio. The Blackberry would be good as Jennifer already has one, and MDaemon will (when it comes out of beta) support BIS and thus I can directly push my mail to the phone. On the other hand, my last few phones have all come from Sony Ericsson and SE have proven themselves to be an excellent phone manufacturer. The Satio is a touchscreen model and boasts a 12.1 megapixel camera. The downside is that I hear quite a few reports about the responsiveness of the touchscreen – and my experiences with LG’s Viewty makes me somewhat nervous.
So I’m in a conundrum. Let’s see what O2 say to me having a contract phone with them and take it from there. I will say that I will NOT be buying a pay-as-you-go iPhone. In fact, pay-as-you-go is right out the window regardless.
