Yesterday the hullabaloo was all about the new Google mobile device, Nexus One. It was atop the headlines of Huffington Post and New York Times, Mashable, and in the blogosphere and Twitter in general. This is a great deal of hype for a phone, which is now the latest contender against Apple’s iPhone.

It just makes me imagine the cell phone industry is now a 1970s Samurai film, where iPhone sits atop a tall mountain. Challengers come from different villages to showdown with the iPhone. They have clever tricks like slider keyboards and wireless charging, but ultimately the iPhone cuts them down by having multi-touch and a unmatchable app library.

And for all this talk about a great phone, I still have a Motoral RAZR. Not because I like the piece of shit, but because I’m a broke graduate. Its features are it can dial and it has a screen.My 9 key has stopped working, so I can only call friends who were already in my address book, friends whose phone numbers don’t include the number 9, and if I’m being murdered I have to hope that blank-1-1 will get me someone.

Even if I did have the money, I’m not sure I would invest in a fancy phone like the Nexus One or iPhone. I might just get another simple device. There’s something scary about someone having the ability to reach me via 6 different ways:phone, text, email, Twitter, Fbook, and a clever pigeon with a note on its leg. If you have a smartphone you’re guaranteed to be contacted by the former 5, and sometimes it’s better to have less ways for the assholes in my life to reach me.