I really want an iPhone. But, I just don’t know that getting an iPhone is in the cards right now.    I have a Sprint contract, yet I have nothing but seething disapproval for Sprint lately.  Mostly because the signal is crap where I live and I’m tired of paying to not use my phone.

When I got Sprint, I was living in Texas which is basically mountainless, hill-less and otherwise into the great, wide open, as it were — at least in Dallas. The signal was fantastic there and it never occurred to me to get anything else.  When I moved to California, I started having signal loss, mostly because I lived in areas that had some sort of hills, like North Park and now, South Mission Hills.  And if I’m not in a hill, I’m in a canyon or a mall or some other stupid reason why the phone drops calls, sends me voicemail alerts four days later or texts all in a big, startling heap at 3am.

So, I got a better phone.  And mikey and I still share a plan (simply because it’s cheaper and convenient for both of us), so he got a better phone, too.  And still we  have this problem when we talk to each other or anyone else, for that matter.  I am so totally over it.

It’s not really a good time to invest in a totally new AT&T phone plan and two iPhones (because sharing costs in this economy is what it’s all about)… but I could use an upgrade on the phone I’ve got. It’s stopped taking photos and I sometimes wonder if it’s just this same crappy phone I keep buying over and over (just the newer models) that is the problem. I talk to other people with Sprint and they seem relatively happy.

Sprint has that new Everything Plan for one flat rate, which is very enticing. Plus, they have a lot more phones that are similar to iPhones.  I was thinking about a Blackberry, but I don’t know if Sprint carries those…. and I don’t think Id like those teensy keys.

Does anyone have any recommendations for good touch-screen phones that are iPhone similar and have decent apps and whatnot? And should I stay with Sprint or are you compelled to sing the praises of another plan?