Okay, so I switch to the “Simply Everything” plan, and was told that I would have everything I used to have, but now I’d have unlimited minutes, and I’d never have to worry about my phone bill freaking out again.

All was cool until I got on the train today, and that’s when I found out… No longer would I have the “phone as modem” option, and so for 10 hours on the train, if I wanted the ‘net, I’d have to surf it through the phone itself!

Crapola!

Hahaha! Screw you, Sprint, I found a cool program that makes it work anyways!

It’s called WMWiFiRouter, and you can find it at WMWiFiRouter.Com — it can use the USB or WiFi connections to make it all work, but it does seem to be pounding my phones battery.

I’ll post again later once I have a little more experience with it!

In a world of unlocked phones, it would be no problem, for instance, to have three different phones, each for different purposes, and you could essentially move your one service back and forth amongst the phones as you saw fit. So, you could have your big beautiful iPhone, a super rugged phone, and a super small phone, and when you wanted to switch phones, you’d just move your sim card back and forth.

Personally, it does not surprise me a bit that it was Apple who started this mess; they’ve long been purveyors of proprietary technologies. These types of issues are rampant in the world of Apple electronics, but because their market penetration is so small, nobody gives a crap.

Once they finally managed to tap into the mass market, it was only a matter of time before this dirty little aspect of this otherwise wonderful company came to light.

Anyways, you can read the full text of the article, here:

Consumers Want Unlocked Phones

The Apple iPhone controversy has raised consumer awareness about the issue of locked cell phones–and that’s a good thing.

Mike Elgan, Computerworld

   Saturday, October 20, 2007 1:00 PM PDT

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138674-c,cellphones/article.html