I have struggled for years with vzw's crappy non-selection of smart phones.Good grief, it took a year for them to upgrade the VX6900 to 6.1. Ridculous to have EVDO RevA available but no phones upgraded to use it. Bye Bye Verizon; I would have maybe put up with your outdated crippled phones if I could get more than one bar at my office. You can always tell who is on Verizon; they're the ones standing by the row of windows trying to make a call; meanwhile I'll be hidden in my little cube with 4 bars of 3G on my iphone.

I switched from T-mo - have always had unlocked phones since theirs are even worse than Verizon. We only went 3g in my town a week before the iphone3g was released. I just dropped my data from my Verizon touch; evdo seems really slow in comparison, and besides I hardly get any signal on it at work, whereas I get 4 bars on the iphone. Yeah, T-mo has great rates but they will never have 3g where I live and who wants a frequency that nobody else has; I like being able to get an unlocked phone that works with 3g anywhere.

Pretty fair review; speaking as someone who has paid ridiculous prices for Verizon's crippled phones and unlimited (much slower) data over the past few years, both the 3G iphone and and data plans are sounding pretty good to me.

The place where I work will not allow us to access non work-related internet websites, so I have an advantage 7501 to browse the internet and be able read what's on the web pages. And I have actually used it as a phone with my bluetooth.