Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide, tells us that a 2-year contract should be a reason enough not to buy the Verizon iPhone 4.

The day that Verizon gets the iPhone will be remembered as glorious by everybody who’s dropped 12 calls in a row, been taunted by meaningless signal bars and just plain had a miserable AT&T experience. But they shouldn’t buy one.

Availability seems to be a killer feature but then they tell us that a low or no-cost upgrade is more important. They probably value…new features. I think they could do a better job differentiating the positions, despite the irony. Their advice sounds like this: consumers who want stability should consider buying an iPhone now, whereas consumers who want to risk an awful experience with Apple should wait.

Time, coming from the opposite perspective, explains it like this:

Several providers are selling monthly 200-megabit data plans for $15, and T-Mobile’s cheapest plan is only $10 a month.

Combine that with a reasonable talk-messaging plan and you’ve got yourself a smartphone that’ll do just about anything you’d want—with the exception of impressing strangers because it won’t be the sleekest, newest model out there.

But if you’ve held out this long without a smartphone, you probably don’t care about impressing people, keeping up with the Joneses, or any of that guff. You probably care more about your own bottom line.

In other words, they don’t recommend an iPhone at all.

And then there’s the Daily Show: