I also had only bitcoins with them (around 8-10) and after a few days I was allowed to transfer them away.. Maybe they started accepting withdrawals from people with low value accounts? Don't know.. good luck with yours!

The one that's opensource, based on open standards that anyone can re-implement, and doesn't require any network access as long as the time on your device (iOS, Android or Blackberry) is accurate? While not everything Google does is "good" we shouldn't automatically assume everything is "evil" either, especially when it's something that can be verified (opensource, open standards), can be freely re-implemented by anyone who understands those standards, and requires no network access once it's installed.

But back on-topic, here's what I do. I don't use Armory mainly because my online PC with my watch-only wallet is underpowered and downloading the whole blockchain using the best internet access available in my area would take at least a week. I use Electrum with a seedless watch-only wallet on my online PC and the full (seeded) wallet on an old laptop with its wifi card physically removed. I can make as many transactions as I want with the online PC, but (similar to Armory) I need to transfer them to my offline PC to sign them before they can be broadcast over the network. I have a paper wallet with a BIP-38 encrypted private key (generated with a modified version of bitaddress.org, the bip38 branch of github.com/Zeilap/bitaddress.org ) that I can use for cold storage, if I ever need to access those coins I can decrypt the key with the same version of bitaddress.org, bit2factor.org or the Casascius Address Utility and import it into any wallet. I also use a couple online wallets including inputs.io and blockchain, but never store more than a couple dollars worth of btc there at any given time.