Need smartphone advice

[dougo]

I think I've decided that I want a smartphone. I don't even really need the phone part, I just want a portable web browser that doesn't depend on free wireless access (which is not as ubiquitous as I'd like, and often flaky and/or slow when it does exist, e.g. True Grounds). I don't want an iPhone, for (let's just call it) religious reasons. Any advice? I realize that the smartphone landscape is changing rapidly, and maybe I'd be better off waiting six months, but I think it would be convenient to have one for the MIT Mystery Hunt.

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I love my G1

[choonpiaw.livejournal.com]

So ok, it was free from my Employer, but I do like it quite a lot.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

What are some things you dislike about it?

the big one is the battery life

[choonpiaw.livejournal.com]

It's definitely a "charge it every day or it will die" phone (note that the blackberry is like that for me as well, at least, it was until I found the "turn yourself off every night and turn yourself on every morning" feature). But Lisa is using it as her primary phone and she loves it, and I have to admit having the internet access always available is very addictive. If I didn't travel internationally as often as I did, I would ditch my blackberry in a minute (the blackberry is the only reasonably priced international roaming data plan --- probably a non-issue for you).