Morning of Frustration ... and Cell Phones!

[kniedzw]

I dropped swan_tower off near the lecture she's TA'ing for this morning. Then, I headed over toward the post office to mail a few letters. ...at which point, an older lady in an Avalon slammed into my passenger side, mucking up the front right wheel something fierce and denting the door and front panel.

A call to the police and a tow truck later, I called swan_tower, who was out of class at that point. She picked me up, we made a trip to my insurance agent's office, and we had lunch. Then, we hit the Sprint store on the way home, trying to figure out how we want to upgrade our (fairly antiquated) phones.

To stave off certain questions in advance:

• I am fine. I have a very slight soreness in my neck, but I do not feel as if I am going to get any whiplash at all. I've had it before, and I doubt that I'll have much more than slight ache. The other driver was similarly OK, it seems.
• There were just the two of us involved.
• I have no idea if I'm going to be ruled "at fault," here. Our stories don't entirely match up, apparently, and we both have convincing arguments for being in the right. There was at least one potential witness that the officer was going to trace down, and I have an edge in that the impact was on my passenger's side, indicating that I was well inside of the intersection. Ultimately, however, who knows?
• swan_tower and I still have two cars, so neither of us are down a method of transportation between now and getting my car fixed up.
• I do, indeed, have all my insurance ducks in a row, so the worst that will happen is that I'll be declared at fault, pay the deductible, and end up paying a premium over the next several years.
• No citations were handed out at the scene.
• Really, I'm OK. I promise you.

Personally (in part to get my mind off the nightmare of administrative and maintenance hassle I have in front of me with my car), I have a question for people who are reasonably familiar with the current lineup of Sprint phones: what are your opinions? Any far and away favorites? I'm not looking for anything particularly fancy, and my priorities are, roughly, in the following order:

1. reception,
2. battery life,
3. reliability,
4. price, and
5. extra gadgets.

Of the gadgets I am most interested in, I'm looking at Bluetooth (for ease of answer during my daily commute) and GPS (because it's cool), though the latter would be something I'm interested in only if it wouldn't cost significantly more, as I am unlikely to use it frequently.

So ... any suggestions on particular models or websites that you'd recommend I visit? I'm home for the rest of the day (the administrative hassle already took up most of the useful hours of the day), and I'm looking for some distraction.