Oh, BTW, I am an IT manager at a cehmical company. Our company let's us choose our own service and phones as long as they communicate either via Blackberry or through ActiveSync or RPC/HTTPS (iPhone users are the minority in or corp and use this method to connect to the Exchange mail server). We employees get reimbursed for the average cost of connection via cell phone.

I have a Motorola Q9h Global phone that does 3G on AT&T, it tethers, it even communicates with our corporate Blackberry server using Blackberry Connect. It plays MP3's just fine in stereo over the Bluetooth, and even has two "large" speakers that actually sound okay for a cell phone. I can find all kinds of 3rd party apps for dirt cheap that run on Windows 6.1 Mobile OS.

I love it, it cost me nothing after the $99.00 rebate.... Oh, I guess it doesn't have touch screen... Big deal...

Gee, Anand, why bother [posting something like that here if you close multi-million dollar deals on your phone? WHy don't you have a Blackberry 8830 Worldly Edition or a Moto Q World Edition?

Sounds like you may have settled for a simpler phone without shopping around for something more suitable to your "jet set".

I was looking for a phone, one I could drop without destroying it, one I could hang on the handlebars of my motorcycle with a little sprinkle of rain without fear of destroying it. I wanted one that actually had some signal reception, speakerphone. Hell, this thing even announces who's calling by voice... "Incoming call from Christi".

It's a man's phone, Anand... If you were looking for something a little more stylish to go with your Gucci's maybe you shoudl have gotten a oink Palm Centro like my wife has.

Choke on that "big Boy".