Well girls, after a long internal-mortal-kombat, I've made the plunge to Android.

No, I didn't go all-in with some mind-blowing dual-core monster, but picked up instead a more timid and maybe already EOL, HTC G2 on eBay, for $330.

Plan is to go prepaid with T-Mo, as I've been unshackled from the evil carrier grips for good part of 3 years already.

So, the menu du jour would then be:

1. manual rooting (I guess no 'z4root' for G2)
2. cyanogenmod
3. overclock ( I suppose this might not be as necessary as I've come to expect with my N900)
4. the usual suspects: file manager, terminal emulator, SSH, a few web browser alternatives...
5. Ubuntu / ? dualboot
...
Any additional mods I must-do-before-making-first-call?

I'm actually cautiously excited, though not so much for to the G2's aging hardware, other than its keyboard (take that N9), but mainly for the plethora of useful apps (no, I could care less about games and cool ***** to impress your iPhonista friendz) vibrant community (though I find "I-needz-some-appz" fairly often on xda forums, so not just a TMO phenomenon) and compatibility: seamless google integration - yes, I'm falling deeper and deeper in the rabbit hole with gmail, gtalk, gdocs, greader, gmaps etc.

Plus one single application I'll use every-freakin'-moment-of-the-day: a citrix-based app for a jurassic SABRE-software/system that our beloved airline refuses to upgrade (we still use matrix printers for flight releases ). First mobile access was available only on WinMo 6.5, later on of course for iPhone, and finally Android. Jealously I watched my co-workers tap away with their devices as I was waiting for Iceweasel to load under Easy Debian, and then logging on through Iceweasel's Java capabilities (once again, thank you qole!). I have to say, based on my daily use of said system, a mobile device capable of accessing SABRE effortlessly is worth my $300 alone

Meanwhile I'll probably take the N900 and go dabble with MeeGo again, while eagerly awaiting the final N9 verdict: sink or swim.

So no, I ain't leaving this place any time soon