I went back to the iPhone without being held hostage by the exorbitant AT&T fees.

My friend Chris bought a 3G iPhone, so I bought his old iPhone (which was only a few months old).  I put my T-Mobile sim card in it, and used a hack program to make it work on the T-Mobile network.

Then I installed the new 2.0 software, and hacked it again.  Now it works with the T-Mobile network, and makes use of Apple’s new “push” technology via their MobileMe service.

It does not have access to data over the Edge network - which is good since I have weaned myself from constant email.  However, because the iPhone has wifi, it can access my mail, contacts, and calendar wirelessly.

Sweet phone, small monthly charges, no data, unless I am in range of one of my wifi networks.

One device.  Music.  Phone (have you seen the iPhone app store?  It’s amazing).  I can control my home stereo over my home Wi-Fi network from anywhere in my house (including my new deck) from my phone.

Genius!