I was looking for new phone about as soon as I got my last, and I was not particularly excited about anything I saw. My desires fell somewhere between a phone that simply did voice and text in a tiny form-factor, and a full-featured brick, knowing the best of both worlds is not possible. I was content enough to not be satisfied with the free crappy phone that came with the service plan years ago, since it meant not commiting more money to something I didn’t like.

The Treos were the most interesting gadget, followed by the PPC 6700, but I couldn’t rationalize the cost of service to take advantage of the features, and the size was really too much, so those were out. Again I considered the basic smaller phones that you get with the service plans, but those didn’t satisfy the technolust. The Motorola PEPL commercial during the Super Bowl alerted me to a sexy phone that I didn’t know I wanted, but I did know $300 for a re-packaged RAZR was asking too much.

So then I looked at the RAZRs again. A slim phone that came out around a year ago, decent set of features, but also thin and light. We stopped by T-Mobile over the weekend to check them out (and to fondle the PEBL), and found out they were selling the RAZR at half the price of the PEBL, and were offing a two-for-one deal with new plans. That’s a Happy Valentine’s Day plan.

So, one year behind the striped shirts, I have a new Motorola RAZR. I’m still waiting for the old phone number to switch over, but I’ve had the chance to play with many of the features already. So far I’m happy.