It's the last year of the naughty aughties, so I figured I'd be doing the decade a disservice if I wasn't naughty.

A guy in a plaid shirt standing at the corner of the room, facing away from me and into the corner.

T-shirt, jeans, and a soulless, cathode-ray-tinted stare.

@Martin
There are other factors. I pay for the $7/mo TEP plan, it's had significant and verifiable hardware defects that were not my fault, and this is the third time in less than 6 months that I've had issues. I think it's always up to the manager's discretion though, so if you're a good customer and you complain enough, they may very well hook you up. My understanding though is that they're relatively willing to upgrade a TP to a TP2 because the TPs have been so much trouble.

@dtreo
I've been looking at reviews, and I'm excited for it. The reason I got the Touch Pro in the first place is that it's a powerhouse, and the TP2 is only improving on that. But after as much time as I've spent with WinMo, I'm ready for a more elegant user experience. I guess when my contract comes up next year (though I think I become Sprint Premier in a month or two?), I'll start looking at something Androidy. I want me some capacitive screen.dtreo

Last Friday, I brought my Touch Pro in for the third time from random hardware failures. I spent my time waiting in line messing with the Hero they had on display, and I thought it was pretty fantastic from the time I spent with it. The guy at the store tried to give me yet another TP, but I told him I didn't want to be back in two months looking for yet another replacement.

It was pretty clear that he was already prepared to offer me a different phone and he asked me what my needs were, so I pushed for a Hero, but he said I needed to pick something with the same OS. I'm not 100% sure that this was true because I've seen the Sprint memo about proactively trading Touch Pros out for other devices such as the Treo 850w (WinMo) and several Blackberry models (not WinMo), but I figured it was a bit much to push for a phone that hadn't even launched yet, officially.

As a result, I have a Touch Pro2 coming within the next couple of days. I'm not thrilled, but I'll live. I'm hoping it lasts me another year until I'm eligible to buy myself the latest and greatest Android phone, because the Hero definitely left a lasting impression. Or maybe someone will be willing to trade...

I wish that I was yours, but Article 7, Section 2.4, Clause 5b of your contract states that in the event of a Joyswag offering of sufficient awesomeness (as defined in Article 4, Section 3: "Awesomeness metrics and analysis of accompanying factors"), all ownership rights are immediately and irrevocably transferred to the offering party or parties under the contract parameters from Article 14, Appendix C. Sorry.

Weird. I used to live about half a mile from that guy.

So wrong.

Chicken-choker from the background of Chun-Li's stage.

Favorite holiday gaming moment: getting Street Fighter 2: Special Championship Edition for the Genesis. 6-button controllers and actual (crummy) speech! It was awesome.