Here is a dumb question and I hope everyone here enjoys such things:

I have the true nation, 500/3500, with 100 text messages and internet connect
for a measly $49 per month (I know, but someone at cingular gave me the
messages for free and the internet connect as well for the phone browser --
hey!  I don't complain).

At any rate, my plan ends today (the 2nd), and as I see it, I have three
options if I plan to stay with cingular (which I do because I want to keep my
phone number for now):
    1.  keep the phone month to month (even though it has the scratchy unreliable
battery meter problem)
    2.  avail my negotiation strategies and threaten to churn in order to get a
credit against the cost of a GAIT phone and sign for another year (this option
will cost me $6).
    3.  [here's the iffy one] -- CAN I GET A GSM phone, keep the t61, and use
both?  that way I can get a cute color GSM phone (like the t306 or the 3595),
keep my awesome never roaming plan, and have the perky new phone which will
work in 90% of the places I makes calls.

I don't want to give up the tdma or the roaming free plan because I drive a
couple times a month on trips through no cingular service areas and this
results in about 400 of my monthly weekend minutes being free roaming minutes
on any other plan.

I only ask because I'm not thrilled about either the 8340i (or whatever that
Nokia number is) or the t62u (even though it is nearly identical to mine).

Somehow, I keep thinking those phones aren't quite great gsm phones, and they
certainly don't have the bells and whistles (or talk time) of some of the other
similarly priced GSM phones.

I realize that this would mean keeping my t61 in the car and turning the GSM
phone off once into a tdma roaming area, but the point I got the phone was in
order to be able to call people in the car no matter where I was in the
country.

The other perk is that it seems less necessary to switch phones after december
(when cingular GSM hits there projections) and I wind up with a fun phone and
that's half way into my contract.

Do you think this option makes any sense?  Do you think Cingular would allow
the old phone to remain on the plan plus the GSM phone?

Thanks for your feedback everyone!
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