Too Good To Be True?

I have finally entered the modern age. Friday night my wife and I broke down and bought a Sony Ericsson T68m phone with T-Mobile as the service provider. Do I need a cell phone? Probably not, but the tech-geek in me was charmed by the new revelation... The service plan for T-Mobile's "Sidekick" in not restricted solely to that device, it is available with any Net ready phone! $39 per month gets me an mediocre 200 week "anytime" minutes and 1000 weekend "anytime" minutes with overages being a mere $0.35 per minutes.

So what's so great about it? Hmm, how about unlimited data over their GSM/GPRS network! Woohoo! Now I'll never get any writing done! Reading the fine print lets you know that the "Unlimited Data" is only for the first year, after that it is 15MB per month with overage being $3.50/MB. Even with that it is still more reasonable than all of their other Data plans.

But, the big "butt" in the equation is... The data is currently not turned on for my phone. Either that or the phone was not set up properly at purchase. So this morning must be spent with T-Mobile's support staff on the phone. Fortunately my call yesterday was handled extremely well so I am hopeful.

This is how I must spend my rare Sunday off from work... Like everyone else I'm chasing the wireless dream, and Freddy Krueger is chasing me in a rocket powered monkey car...