Would a phone plane ring PTers to gather for a meet-up, and then fly me there?

I've got a Nokia 6015i, which is OLD! I have the least expensive monthly plan they offer and I am losing most of the minutes every month. I should look into going back to a pre-paid plan. My next phone needs a QWERTY keyboard and a camera. I'm doing a lot more texting than I was when I first got this phone. I'm hesitant to replace it, though, cos it works fine and it's got a whole lot of contact numbers stashed in it. My niece is on either Sprint or U.S. Cellular and when she got her current phone, they were able to transfer all the numbers and data right from the old one.

One thing I really like is that if I know the person's cell phone number, and they're a Verizon user, I can type a message in my e-mail and send it right to their phone number, and they get it as a text. Example: my niece couldn't reach her mom for something, so she called me. I shot her an e-mail text to let her know what was going on, then quickly called my niece back to answer her question. I think I'm the only nerd in my family who texts in complete sentences with punctuation and grammar. -- i shld prolly lrn 2 textspeak but im old

I have a couple of co-workers with iPhones and they've got some pretty nifty health care apps like MedCalc and MicroMedex on them. How handy is that for patient care. There's even a speech recognition app for "medicalspeak". That's tempting but the iPhone plus the contract plus the data package is pretty pricey. My oldest niece has an iPhone and doesn't keep a land line.