Wow, I just don't know.
It was my very intention to rock the Bionic for a year, and now that's no longer an option. Part of me wants to do the rash thing and leave for say, Sprint, but, as drdoom pointed out, they do not offer 1 year contracts. Suppose there is TMo. But I have a family plan with 5 lines. Two of which have met their contract. I suppose I'd have to ride the full 24 months before my OG meets it. Even if I held out till Nov, I'd still have two phones that don't meet. If I didn't want to pay an ETF, I'd have to keep each phone until Oct of next year. That's not an option. If I opted to leave now, I'd be paying ETFs on 3 Android phones. Also not an option. Or I could buy the Bionic at full price, which "I believe" is $650, and hope to sell it next year at maybe half that (at best). Still, that's not a very good option.
We've been debating about the amount of RAM on the Bionic since it's inception. Maybe it really will be adequate. Will it be adequate in 2 years, now that's a great question. I've had my OG from day 1, and 17 months in, I think we've finally topped this thing out. Sure, the Droid has exceeded expectations, but it has finally reached it's limitation. With a locked bootloader, can we really expect the Bionic to push as far as the Droid did? Especially considering the fact that quad-core will be out a year from now, and god only knows where Android will be at that point.
With my financial situation, the need of a new phone, and the yearning to not get left behind in a year, Verizon is almost forcing my hand here. I almost have to get the TB (which I do not want), and rock it for a year. And that's pretty much telling the consumer what he has to buy. That's not capitalism or socialism, that's communism. Now I know why they're called "Big Red".