We signed up last month for China Telecom's special New Year plan, which for the same monthly fee that we are currently paying increases our home internet connection bandwidth from four to ten Mbps, and also includes 30 hours per month on their WiFi hotspots throughout the country (which would have been great for my iPod Touch, sniff), as well as a mobile phone with plenty free domestic talk time.

Today we went to pick up the handset, and it turned out to be a Huawei C8500, i.e. an Android phone (has a camera, GPS, WiFi tethering, and a Micro SD slot), with an apparently unlimited data plan (I am going to need two or three independent confirmations before I believe that). First impressions on the bus ride back home make it very likely that it will banish both the Newpad tablet (which I am already quite annoyed with) and my current non-feature, non-camera Samsung phone to the lowest desk drawer (and maybe retire the clickwheel iPod to Cissy's parents again as well; I wonder if the phone supports the remote control buttons in my headphones).