One of these two phones is going to become the latest “last phone I’ll ever own:”

I bought a Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Storm (original) about two months ago. Needless to say, I’m back using my BlackBerry Curve; I just couldn’t get used to the typing delay on the Storm. Its operating system is slow and buggy, written for the likes of the Curve and the 83xx rather than the Storm; consequently, because of the higher demands of the Storm, it crashed a lot.

The Storm 2 promises to be an all-new experience, with BlackBery OS 5.0, and the hit-and-miss SurePress “button” under the floating glass screen has been replaced with a slick piezoelectric sensor arrangement, promising multi-touch capability a-la the iPhone (a phone which everyone but iPhone users love to hate).

The Storm 2 has WiFi capability–long clamored-for by Verizon subscribers, but something I really don’t care much about, as Verizon’s 3G EV-DO data network is so fast that I don’t wont for it on the devices I already have. However, Engadget has rumored that the Storm 2 will have MiFi capability–which means that the Storm 2 is, essentially, a mobile wireless access point, with which I share the staggeringly-fast 3G EV-DO Internet connection with up to five laptops, which would connect to my Storm using their 802.11 WiFi:

So I would be a walking WiFi hotspot. That is freaking cool.

If this is actually true, then this device is chock-full of win and it will be my next “last phone I will ever own.”

But there’s also a new contender on the block: The Droid, by Motorola, is coming exclusively to Verizon. Its claim to fame? It’s not the fact that it has a a fold-away keyboard–like a number of smartphones these days–but rather, it boasts version 2.0 of the Google Android operating system. While BlackBerry has an App store, Android is completely open-source and I can finally have a phone I can develop my very own apps for. (and don’t none of you WinMo users tout the ability to write apps for your phones–WinMo is buggier than a bait store and I’d sooner own an iPhone before I owned a WinMo phone.)

I’ll wait until Christmas. Then I’ll take the plunge with one of these two phones. But either way, I will have a new phone come New Years.

Oh happy day! It’s 75, sunny, and the bright azure sky has not a single cloud!

It was almost worth slogging through yet another South Florida sumer just to get to this beautiful day.

And here I am stuck in my office without a window.

Bleargh.

I think I’m gonna move into the lab.