This is going to be my mantra for the new year. It doesn’t make much sense out of context, so here goes:

My last two real posts have dealt with my trials and tribulations of finding and choosing a new phone to go with my two-year contract renewal with Sprint. At the outset, this really shouldn’t be that big of a deal. It’s only a phone.

And yet, I’ve written no less than six times about it over the past year. This event has achieved monumental status, my excitement and anxiety growing as The Day drew ever closer.

I’ve had battles of historic proportions raging in my head between the Samsung A900/M and potential contenders, and each time the Samsung had managed to overtake its opponents. Then Motorola had to step into the ring and open my eyes to the magic of media card slots. Well gosh… maybe 50 megs of storage isn’t enough? Was the RAZR a better candidate?

Then I was wooed by the Samsung M610, promising to be all sleek and cool. And expensive; let’s not forget expensive. But it just *had* to be unattainable.

Salvation came, or so I thought, in the form of the Sunday Best Buy flyer. $79.99 KRZR’s for everybody! Get ’em while they’re hot. Temptation took its hold, and I caved. I became… a Motorola owner. It’s not such a bad deal. Choosing the KRZR (terrible name; I prefer K1m) over the M610 saved me $100 (at least). And now I have a phone that I can actually sync contacts and calendar entries to without having to call in some sort of voodoo, uh, person.

I thought I was done, and then the phone started to irk me. Was it too heavy? Were the side buttons too hard to press? Would it damage too easily? Was I happy?

Hi, my name is Andy, and I have gadget-induced neurosis.

I ended up at Best Buy again tonight, seriously considering trading the KRZR in for a SLVR (similarly equipped but in the candy bar form factor). But I resisted. I went out there to look, and that’s all I did. I left with my phone still in hand, feeling a little better. Either phone is a winner, but there is nothing wrong with the one I already bought. It’s only a phone.