My main gripe is the whole itunes thing. I have a crackberry that is dying. Since it is just past the 1 year warranty period, I am looking for a replacement.

I briefly considered the iphone, but then started thinking about the ramifications. First, I don't like itunes. They put their DRM on everything that is uploaded to them. I am not looking to buy music from itunes, I prefer a Linux-friendly merchant like Amazon. In addition, I only run Linux boxes at home, and Apple has resolutely not provided a Linux itnues client.

Since I only need a phone for music, phone and texting, I don't want something that I have to keep a windows box around to be able to download music to an iphone. I just want to plug it in to USB, have it appear on my desktop as a hard drive, then drag and drop files to it.

Enough suckiness?

--vr