I’ll admit it, I don’t use my iPhone as a phone. I use it as a PDA, a data device, as everything but chatting on the phone. I use it on GoPhone Pick Your Plan and plan to cash out my unused airtime after a year. It’s a data device, and after that little trick… I’m only paying about $20/month for it.

When I’m at home, in the office, and a lot of places in-between, my iPhone only needs Wi-Fi. It doesn’t need the GSM radio on. Now, the power drain doesn’t bother me. The < 1.5 SAR of radiation coating through my vital organs doesn’t bother me either (ask again in about 100 years when I’m chatting with an oncologist though). No, what bothers me is the chirp chirp chirpity chirp that is the GSM Buzz.

Now, this is a buzz I’ve been familiar with for a long time. I was the first kid on the block with a TDMA phone. I was the first kid in the nation with a GSM phone on AT&T Wireless (as a consumer anyways… day one customer in a day one launch city). The buzz is something I’ve been feeling long before people were feeling Cingular.

However, with every other phone, I have an off switch. And, iPhone has one too. But, other smartphones will do what iPhone won’t; let me turn off the cellular radio, while keeping Wi-Fi on. Why Apple, why?

Airplane Mode is nice, lets you keep using your iPod and other functions without the radio. But, turn Wi-Fi on, and the phone is automatically turned back on. That’s not nice. The user should be presented with an option “Do you want to also turn the phone back on?”

Please Apple, end the chirp that interferes with my Vista-inspiring Halo 2 battles, my 360-degree Halo 3 slaughters, and even my Halo victories on my MacBook Pro (fine, Halo 2 is also installed there too). But, the buzz gets in the way of all three. Worst part though is the slience… all my satellite speakers chriping in unison from the middle of nowhere.

I’d almost be willing to swap it out for an iPod touch to get rid of the chirp. Almost.

So please, join in and let Apple know you share in my feeling Apple… I just got done feeling Cingular when they became AT&T. Hopefully feeling Apple will be easier to fix.