My Google phone adventure

I have spent the last few days fighting with my cell phone. I ran right out after the Nexus One (the Google phone) was announced and bought one. It arrived Monday, courtesy of T-Mobile, who in exchange for a two-year contract subsidized the incredibly expensive phone. By Tuesday morning I knew it wasn't going to work - I had no internet anywhere, and most of the time wasn't even able to connect to T-Mobile's phone network. So I decided to return the phone. But as I had gotten my name engraved on it, they wouldn't take it back. And there was the well-publicized three company cross finger pointing. Then, suddenly, a guy at T-Mobile simply ended my contract. Boom! Ten minutes later my number had been disconnected. Which wasn't really how I had hoped things would turn out, but would do (amusingly, another Google service, Google Voice, makes it OK that I lost my phone number). Now I'm waiting for any of the other shoes to drop. Like a bill from (somebody) for the phone that they won't take back. Which I'm frankly not really willing to do - selling me a non-working, non-returnable phone with a $350 surprise penalty is not acceptable. In the meantime, I bought a cheap pay-as-you-go sim card so I would have some phone service. In under five minutes it spent ten percent of the initial balance I had put on the phone, doing whatever internetty things smart phones do when you aren't looking. I have since managed to turn that part off, so the card should last longer than an hour....