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All hail FleshEatingZipper.com and The Smartphone Manifesto!

Forget the Occupy Wall Street kiddos, we are proposing Genuine Revolution! Unfortunately we can’t condense it all down to 140 characters, so try to stay with us as we hit the Manifesto’s high(er) points:

First off, as Comrade Campbell has noted , mobile VoIP is a communication technology platform that people use to send and receive phone calls with the Internet connection on a mobile device. This varies from standard cellular service as the call is not being placed through the voice network. Instead, the call is being transmitted over the network of a third party mobile VoIP service provider.

Carriers! The streets of Paris will run red with your... oh, sorry, wrong revolution... here we go... Carriers! Death to your voice plans, we have VoIP! At least those of us who don’t live out in the sticks do.

Death to your text plans, exorbitant fees for “what amounts to a rounding error on your bandwidth meters!” Long live Kik Messenger!

Long live better data plans! Death to 2GB caps, arbitrary data limits and prices allowing you to rake in billions of dollars in profits! Man, “billions of dollars in profits” sounds cool!

Long live loyalty programs! Incentivize us to stay with you! And while you’re at it, give us easy upgrades. No reason it has to be such a chore.

Death to bloatware! Yeah okay, the iPhone’s one thing, but fellow Androiders, there is no reason for this madness! March on Motorola! Honestly, Motorola, HTC (News - Alert)? For starters, let us delete the Blockbuster app without rooting our phone and voiding the warranty and our mood will improve markedly.

Death to bait and switch from WiMax to LTE, Sprint (News - Alert)! If not, then we’ll just simplify things for you: Death to Sprint!

Long live Apple! Okay, we know you’ve lost Steve Jobs, but surely he left about ten years’ worth of innovations lying around? Use one -- Siri doesn’t qualify.

Unite your platform, Google (News - Alert)! Unity! Long live Ice Cream Sandwich, now spare a thought for the hundreds of millions of phones out there struggling to catch up.

Microsoft... uh, are they still around? They are? What’s that? Nokia? Really? Thought them and BlackBerry (News - Alert)... Huh. Ain’t that a corker. Learn something new every day.

Comrade phone makers, stop skinning Android! We don’t care! Honestly!

Comrade HTC, check out AMOLED displays! Please! And may we say, “your flagship Thunderbolt has more issues than National Geographic!” And four hours battery time? Really?

Comrade Samsung (News - Alert), upgrade! Now! And please, we need support!

There you go, that about sums it up.