Simply put, we fired this dog and pony show up because we’re self-proclaimed wireless experts and passionate internet writers. It’s not because we just like to hear ourselves talk (we do), but because we feverishly want to compress and relay what we’ve discovered about functionality convergence and the American wireless industry into consumption-friendly reads. Quite simply: we want to make your mobile device do more for you; we want you to crave and use technology you might not have known existed. We want to make your pocket smarter.

How many people do you know who carry tattered, bubbly-sized gray flip phones with nubby antennas jabbing off the top that couldn’t do anything past placing a garbly call to save their lives? Let’s have a rhetorical show of hands. Even worse, what subset of these ‘devices’ have the words “Verizon Wireless” scrawled across them? The shocking truth is that both of these tragedies exist with alarming prevalence — it might even be worse than you think.

We have our work cut out for us.

I’d like to briefly thank everyone who has managed to unravel the confusing and tangled hyperlinkery of the today’s internet to be here peeping our earliest keystrokes. While there are few things more frustrating than vaporware, a preview is all we’re able to deliver for you right now. In the coming weeks, we’ll be soapboxing about our most and least favorite wireless carriers, about which converged devices (or “phones,” if you roll like that) we love recommending, about the major smartphone platforms that today’s discriminating customer is entitled to, and most importantly about the direction we’re hoping to see taken by the producers and consumers of these technologies in the United States.

Don’t touch that dial!