Fiends

I switched my cell phone to AT&T wireless, though with some misgivings. So far, there have been no serious glitches, 2 or 3 nits, and one minor UI change.

In the glitch department:
- Switching sims caused the phone to stop defaulting to wireless when at home. I wondered why I was using so much (free, unlimited) data, but didn't catch this change until I attempted to use a peer-to-peer app that relied on being on the same subnet as its peer - one of my desktops.

In the nit department
- AT&T wireless sent me a lot of emails in the first 36 hours, some useful, some redundant. One of them projected my future monthly bill to the tune of $20 in taxes and fees. A later one gave a projection more like what I had already been paying. Fortunately I'd been warned to expect an inflated estimate.
- AT&T defaulted me into some but not all of its advertising spam options. I turned them all off.
- Both AT&T and T-mobile flag some callers as likely spam/likely scam, but their phrasing is different.

In the "huh" department:
- various text messages that look like their title/content in preview is "Picture." All came from people in my contacts DB, who haven't sent much or anything in years or months. That makes me think of potential security exploits, perhaps a new automated scam, so I read them on a linux system, using google's web interface. They were innocuous. The timing suggests images sent by SMS didn't behave this way on T-mobile.

On the good side, they have a configureable "warn me if my projected bill exceeds $xxx". I set it to just past the bill I expect next month with the activation fee included, and will lower it later.

Annoyingly, they won't email me my bill, just notification that I have one. So I won't have even a soft copy unless I save it myself, and it's likely easiest to simply print it from the browser.