Please tell me it's worth the cost to get a smartphone!

[OakLeaf]

LOL - I call it "car sex" when people drive their cars drive side-by-side in adjacent lanes, blocking all the traffic behind them.

FWIW, my DH is just learning to use the "detour" function on his Garmin (he's been a Garmin user for a decade) and finds that it works really well. Still, the live traffic function on the phone doesn't cost you anything extra, while Garmin's traffic subscription is pretty steep I believe.

I just ordered a Droid Incredible. They're backordered for three weeks. It was the last straw on Wednesday when I had to go into town early before the club ride, and literally minutes after I left, everyone else posted to the forum that they weren't riding. - so after I'd done my errands, I waited around until just before the ride was supposed to start before I called DH and asked him to check the internet for me.

I'm not 100% convinced it's the phone for me - but I've got 30 days to return it if I don't like it. I reallyreallyreally don't like the idea of syncing everything through Google Calendars, even though I'm perfectly well aware that there's no privacy on the airwaves and never has been.

I did just read in the paper this morning that all the service providers will be using the same 4G protocol and frequency - so there's still that tantalizing fantasy of a Verizon iPhone in the future. Which is probably exactly how Apple strings people along, figuring the next best thing to people buying iPhones is keeping them from buying other smartphones...