After being a Crackberry user and T-Mobile subscriber since the Powertel days, I’ve made the leap to an iPhone 3G and AT&T. Honestly, I’ve been interested in the iPhone since it’s introduction but I was still in the middle of my contract with T-Mobile and making the change just wasn’t worth the money it would take to cancel early and make the switch to a new phone and another carrier. There was a glimmer of hope of staying with T-Mobile when they introduced the Google phone or “G1″ as they are calling it, about a week or so ago. The big problem though was that there was probably not going to be 3G coverage in my area on their network for awhile still.

Kevin calls me last week and lets me know he and Stacey picked up iPhones. I decided to at least call T-Mobile to find out how long I had on my contract (which renewed when I got my Blackberry 8700g). It turns out that as of just a couple of months ago, my contract was up and I was eligible to upgrade my phone. When the T-Mobile rep asked me if I wanted to upgrade, I said “Nope! Goodbye!”.  My next stop was Apple’s site where I was able to start the process on getting an iPhone - fill out my info, number transfer, select my plan then schedule an appointment to pick up my phone at the Apple store. Everything was ready for me once I got to the store. All I had to do was pick a model and color and a case to put it in. I went with a white 16GB model. The 8GB versions were all black but with the 16GB you could get black OR white. A lot of my friends had black ones already so I thought white would be a nice change.  A few minutes later, I walked out with my old number transferred to my new phone with everything all set to go. I remember in the past activating a phone let alone transferring a number from another carrier took some time. This was all done in a matter of minutes and with no fuss. What a pleasant surprise.

Church was funny today when I discovered just how many had “drank the kool-aid” as well. At lunch, Kevin, Stacey and I were nerding out with our phones. So much so that Jason got the thirst also and had his iPhone within the hour!