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It has begun… I have my Nokia Lumia 900. After years with Verizon, I am saying buh-bye as I post this from the Lumia.

Okay. Verizon fails yet again.

This maybe the phone that has me leave Verizon after YEARS of being on their network. I think it is time to say good bye to Verizon and Can you hear me now? to At&t. Hopefully the wait isn’t too long, but expected by March of this year.

Lumia 900

Okay, it has been over a year now since windows phone 7 was released and still only ONE phone for Verizon. I am actually considering leaving Verizon and I have been with them for over 10 years, for lack of options in phones. GSM is used world wide and because of that, the majority of phones are GSM. And it makes sense, you pop in your sim card in a phone and it works, with CDMA you can’t do that. There isn’t a SIM card in CDMA, granted Verizon has some world phones that have a SIM slot so when you travel you can still use your phone, but that doesn’t mean you can pop in a SIM card in the US and use your phone on another network.

So when will Windows Phone 7 phones come to Verizon, when will we get the Nokia Lumia 800 in the US and on Verizon, there is a new Nokia handset that has been talked about but I had some doubts it will come to Verizon, but rather it will hit AT&T and maybe T-Mobile. This phone is expected early next year which isn’t too far, but yet is still far. I don’t know how much longer I can hold out, but it isn’t looking too good with my staying with Verizon as I am getting tired of this wait game.

So Verizon, I demand a Nokia Windows Phone! Soon it may be too late, even if Verizon gets it.

I believe I have decided on my next phone, if the stars align right and it comes to Verizon.

I have had a lot of interest as of late in the unannounced as of yet Nokia Searay which is expected to be announced in 2 days on October 26th.

The phone will be running Windows phone and is a beautiful looking phone. Here is a shot of what it should look like. Yes I want the black one seen below. It is also expected to come  in a blue and a pink.

Black Nokia Searay

Verizon's iphone

It has finally happened. Feb 10, 2011 Verizon will have the iphone. Current Verizon customers can pre-order on Feb. 3rd. The phone will run on Verizon’s 3G network, not the new LTE network. This means no data and voice at the same time, but Verizon’s iphone has built in mobile hotspot, for 5 devices.

There are way too many options for new phones now. Verizon’s HTC Thunderbolt which will run on the new LTE network, Windows Phone 7 hitting Verizon soon and now the iphone. I wish Windows Phone wasn’t so late to get to Verizon, they missed an opportunity. So many choices but I am on contract until this summer, so maybe I will have time to decide on what to get.

I finally jumped on data plan boat and got a new phone. I bought the HTC Touch Pro 2 and it arrived last Monday via Fedex. Fedex wouldn’t let me pick it up myself on Saturday and they wouldn’t deliver it until Monday even though they had the package here in Boca, but anyway that is a whole other story.

So TOUCH PRO TWO. Just say it a few times. So far I love the phone. It is an awesome phone with a beautiful screen. It takes good pictures and videos. It also has probably the best hardware keyboard on any smart phone out right now. The slide out keyboard is a 5 row qwerty keyboard with keys spaced out. The screen also can be tilted at an angle with keyboard slid out but I haven’t felt the need to tilt it much yet. I got it with Verizon’s new every two which means I got an additional $100 off the phone price for a total of $99 plus tax. The phone weight can be felt, especially coming from a small Samsung flip phone, but it feels pretty solid. The phone runs Windows Mobile 6.1, and is supposed to get an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5 but that has not been released yet.

So now I am on the boat of those paying an additional $30 for a data plan, which was my biggest hold up of getting a smart phone as I don’t really need it. Anyway here are some pictures of the phone. Oh sorry, smart phone!

Touch Pro 2 Front

Touch Pro 2 Tilted Screen

Touch Pro 2 Side

Touch Pro 2 Five Row Keyboard