Watch Out for the New Crop of Cell Phones

In the seemingly never ending quest by the cell phone companies to alienate their clients, a lot o the new models, like the HTC's and the T Mobile G1 are coming without a standard 3.5mm headphone jack. They instead have a proprietary USB jack for the headphones.

I would give anything for just one cell phone company to operate like the European companies do.

I found it amusing when a Samsung cell phone exec recently commented that the United States market was the last place they were rushing to place new models bcause of the behavior of the cell phone carriers.