[Billfred]

I've been using the same free-with-contract LG model since the Championship in 2005*, so I'm due for an upgrade. SMS won't be missed by me--I never use it anyway. The data plan increase is slightly lametastic, but I think I can swing it.

Spoiler for *The cell phone story:

I literally received my cell phone from my mother as I got in her car to go to Atlanta for the 2005 Championship--Ryan Albright was the first person in my (often-mysteriously-erased--this is a free-with-contract phone) address book. Sometime around 2007, my brother and mother upgraded phones--I hardly used mine, so I didn't upgrade. While in San Jose for Cal Games 2006, my SIM card died; there's nothing like being thousands of miles from home with no cell phone service until conning Ken Leung and Bill Gold's help in hunting down a Cingular store. Since then, I've actually swapped out for my mother's unit since mine was being more irritating with charging. On the up side, I now have all the chargers for the old phones--three, with my mother's and brother's--which lets me charge just about anywhere I am. Small pleasures, I guess.