I calculated the longterm effect based on the extra $$$ per month for a smart phone and my current monthly income and I can finally say that I can afford a smartphone plan with Verizon; (almost $100 per month!!!). Anyways, working at school, the carwash, and probably Advanced Auto full time in summer and detailing jobs will make this affordable.. So I'm sticking with Verizon, mainly because of service availability and I am typically in the Lakes Region and Mountains of NH, Vermont and traveling so having good service is needed.
I really just want any smaller sized decent smartphone with Android system. I've always had a keyboard'ed phone but with the new Swype texting I think the keyboard might not be necessary in terms of texting, however I also would like to use the phone to post up on here, talk in shoutbox, and send and respond to important emails so I'm thinking not having a keyboard might be a good idea to optimize those features.
As far as phones choices go, as I said I'm looking for something fairly compact. I don't want a huge bulky phone such as the Droid X which is essentially a mini netbook lol. If I decide I WANT a keyboard I'm leaning to the Droid2, if I don't want a keyboard I'm thinking about the Droid Incredible, all touchscreen simplicity. I DID like the LG Ally for a while but its about the same price as the Droid2 and Incredible because of the discount AND I've had bad experiences with every LG phone I've had and I just have an impression that they're a cheap phone company, low quality so I've factored out that phone. I need something that can take mile abuse. I take care of my phone but I don't live a lifestyle where my phone is always safe and secure and clean. If you are reading all this post "bananas" at the end of your post. So essentially out of all the phones at the Verizon store I liked the Droid 2 and the Incredible, its just down to weather I want a keyboard or not, which I'm leaning towards having it like I said to post online.
I like the iPhone because i could have an Ipod and phone combines, there is many an occurance where I'm like wow I dont want to have both things in my pocket today so I leave one of them in my car or at home... BUT the battery life is rumored to suck and the apps are costly as opposed to the androids.
If you read this thanks and hopefully it helps you out with your own phone choices. I guess its a random unnecessarily long post about phones but I like comparing things and maybe it got carried away a little but I feel like this is a good contribution to the forum topic wise. This MAY convert from a voting for KLaBz new phone thread into an official smartphone comparison/discussion thread. I give permission. Thanks for reading feel free to post opinions and any info you find interesting.
