So, I am looking for getting an Android phone on AT&T. It needs to be upgradeable when a new version of Android is released. I don't want to be stuck on an old version of the OS, even if it currently has the latest, within a year, it will be too old.

I do Mobile phone development, so I like that I can use this phone as my tester. The only other feature I need the phone for is the tethering.

Basically, I started thinking about getting a 4G Mifi, the Novatel one at Verizon. But figured for either $5 more or less a month I can add the Android phone to my Family plan and now have a device I can test Android apps I write on a real device, instead of the simulator, like I have been using.

I do not need this as a phone. I already have three iPhones 3G, 3Gs, and 4 iPhones with two of them having Phone service through AT&T.

So adding a new line would be only $9.99 a month, and $45 a month for their 4GB data plan. Whereas the Verizon Mifi would be 50-60 a month and all I get is a hotspot.

Thanks

Mark