First: YOU NEVER EVER EVER EVER HAVE TO CHANGE FROM A GRANDFATHERED PLAN NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR PHONE. Even when required data features came out for some phones there are still required versions of grandfathered features. The “$30 data features” are actually wrong for a retailer to add since all the old data features are still available for all the grandfathered plans. You can still get the 24.99 feature on ANY grandfathered plan. If a retail agent is telling you s/he has to add the 30.00 feature or change you plan, s/he is doing so for the commission and you should call customer care right there and have the agent discuss it with customer care because I will guarantee you that you can keep your old plan even if you upgrade to a cliq, mytouch, behold 2, or any other plan. You will just need the 24.99 grandfathered data plan.

Second: T-Mobile is the best carrier all around. While I cannot make everyone believe this, I will say at least that T-Mobile is a better carrier overall and in general than verizon, att, metro, cricket, sprint, or any others. For many reasons. I actually say this from experience having paystubs from verizon, tmobile, and att, and having experience in the service of almost every carrier in the nation including all of those listed above.

Theres no arguing about this. TMO has twice as many androids as any other u.s. carrier and their BEST one is inferior to ANY android on ANY other carrier.

not to mention tmobile has had over an entire year of a head start on android. I would literally pay $3,000 personally just to sit down with TMO’s development team (if they have one) to ask the strategy of releasing phones that are obsolete at the date of their release.

I honestly feel sorry for TMO, its like when i was in boyscouts and my single mother couldnt afford to buy a good cake to put in the boyscout auction so i had to bring an ugly homemade one. Nobody wanted it but it was the best i could do, i think i was crying as i carried it back home. The point is i quit boyscout because i didnt have the resources to be a worthwhile contributor. Wink wink TMobile. put up or get out, your like the poor kid that couldnt bring a present to the birthday party, everyone feels sorry for you but its so awkward they wish you would just leave.

They also had the CLIQ for $99, but I liked the bigger screen on the myTouch and it’s a bit less bulky.

There have been reports abuzz that HTC will have a phone comparable to the HD2, the HTC Dragon which is suppose to be a Android phone and it’s headed towards Verizon. The hope is T-Mobile will pull together a plan to get more mid – high end phones in their stable. It seems as if they don’t care…this is the precise reason why I believe handset vendors don’t spend their time putting T-Mo’s 3G band in their phones. The ones that do sell them independently of T-Mobile branding. Don’t expect a subsidized N900 or X10 on the shelves.

Impress us T-Mobile. 2010 is a new year….don’t start it off with another set of crappy phones. I’m going to keep official count of all carrier’s phones…my hope is that T-Mobile’s lineup will be much improved.