Just back from a nice long trip down to Mexico, my second favorite country on the planet.  I made a point to turn off the iPhone roaming though it wouldn’t have cost much to make or receive calls.  I wanted to unplug.   It felt good.

So I get back to our house in Sausalito, and I turn on the phone.  Over almost two weeks, what did I miss?  Not much.

I start returning calls on the iPhone the next day from my living room.  Call dropped.  Redial.  Call dropped.  I send an email instead of dialing again and annoying further.  Next call lasts 2 minutes.  Call drops.  And the next.  And the next.  Maybe I need a land line after all.

Or maybe I don’t need to pay over $100 per month for a phone that won’t make calls.   Time to cancel the iPhone.  45 minutes of AT&T customer service (amazing how this call remains connected) playing concerned friend and I am out a month’s worth of service to sever the contract a month “early.”

Sure, I could have waited six weeks and skipped the disconnect fee, but I couldn’t in good conscience pay a company for service they aren’t providing.  It’s the principle of it.

Now I own an expensive iPod Touch, and I’m not missing a thing.