Just keep in mind that battery life seems to suck in Android too. That was a huge surprise for me (2 weeks now on android) as no-one was telling this to me (voluntary – before I joined the club, later yes ). Also it was not told to me that basic google-ware is something you need to replace with something else with more functioning apps and that those apps are many times pay-apps. On the positive side, installing custom rom with latest updates was very easy. For actual phone use Android sucks big time, the UI is not even close of being smooth for that purpose. Oh the Android market UI sucks too, there is no way in hell you can actually use market without knowing beforehand what to download.

But I’m happy. It is wonderful toy phone.

So, imo, it is better to buy a cheap android so you will feel free to play with it to extremes.

Laughing Man’s suggestion to buy dumb phone to go with tablet computer is very good but maybe impractical.