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Fast forward to November 2. A glorious day when once and for all I am freed from the chains of Sprint’s deadly ‘Advantage Agreement’ and finally, finally can emerge from the clutches of awful service, dropped calls, subpar networks, and mediocre phone selection.

The front running replacements are either the Verizon or Cingular, with the debate mostly coming down to the type of phone I want. Bluetooth is a must, but none of this crippled business, I want something that works with iSync and can give me access ot my calendar. Internet would be hot, but not necessary. Camera, eh, whatever. Music service, no, thanks. That seems like a short list, but it’s more limiting than you think.

I think the Sony Ericsson T630 looks like the phone that’ll do it for me. Great looking phone and it has all the functions I’m looking for; syncs with OS X over Bluetooth, has the calendar functions, everything. I won’t get a chance to play with it first, since it’s not really availalbe here, I’ll have to get an unlocked version from overseas. That’s really the only downside, and would pretty much put the ball in Cingular’s court.

The Blackberry 7130e is my other option so far, ranking higher on the cool stuff scale but without the ability to sync natively to OSX. There’s reliable software out there, but it still can’t do it over Bluetooth, which really cuts down on it’s appeal. Oh well.

There’s still two months, still time for Apple themselves to astonish me (and many others) and unveil the long rumored iPhone which would surely do all I want in a phone and probably more, maybe even with the functions on an iPod built in. Onc can only dream, and count the days until I can drop Sprint like third period French.