After several years of faithful service, misuse, abuse, torment and torture my phone has finally died. Though not completely dead, it has lost functionality of nearly all the keys on the left side. So today I went out and got myself a new one.

After much thought and deliberation, I chose to get my paws on the Palm Pre. It has a full qwerty keyboard AND a touch screen. It does just as good as the droid when it comes to web surfing, maybe a bit slower on page load time. Plays music as well as any other phone. And does a good job on playing movies.

All this being sweet, the retail price on this baby was over $600. But I got it FREE!! (with the signing of a 2yr contract) all in all I just had to pay around $60 for a few accessories and that was it. I'm loving my new toy and hope to have tons of fun with it for as long, or longer, than my old phone lasted. Or until I can get my paws on a Droid.

P.S.

My number hasn't changed, but because of the crap condition my old phone is in I wasn't able to get my contact info off of it. So I'll be spending some of the weekend putting up with my old phone to get the contact info off it manually.