Lest Helio actually comes out with a qwerty phone to make all that myspace and texting easier, they'll be downing eventually.

If all you want is a cell phone to chitchat, instead of upgrading to these more expensive plans, go preapid. Yea, it's more expensive per minute, but thats cuz the tax is already figured in with each minute. Tracfone and Net10, even tho owned by the same company have different rate plans and one is based for minutes the other is based on price respectively, only make phones that are capable of sms and talking, nothing more. Their phones are cheap, plans are simple, and if you hate the service, theres no $200 surcharge to pay to end service early.

Then again, I use Virgin Mobile, I don't have the credit for paid plans anyway, lol.

Dude, just switch to a new phone to get better reception!!

$1500?!? For a phone?!? Honeys, I don't care if it is titanium. For that much, they should've added a qwertyboard aalso. Las.

Eww, no. This phone looks like a prepaid bargain-bag variety. Why do these manufacturers still come out with clams w/o the external display? IIs it me, or do most people prefer external displays?

Razr, shmazr. My roommate has one and it is a pain to send picture messages to his email account to his site. It takes like a minute on average. Plus, I hate that I cannot feel the separate buttons unless i look at the pad, the outside display is too small to read the caller id, lest the clock. And while some carriers have the megapixel cameraphones now, his is the older vga camera, and the display is ghastly. and he was told at the time it had the best reception...bullshit, externals have better reception.

I have a friend who wants the limited Dolci and Gabbana version...why pay $600 for it? Because he is gay and wants it because D&B is a co-owner of the product design.

And many other ppl I know want it more for the fact that besides looking cute(which I doubt it is), it looks like 1 in 3 ppl or whatev has too.

Why doesn't all of the US upgrade itself already? I mean, I have a 3g cdma phone myself, but I am sick of the US lagging so much in this world.

If people have such a hard time trying to stay wotohin their alotted time slot, then indeed they do deserve to be charged extra, tho I disagree on the $/minutemany have. If people are so worried about going over, maybe it's time to go prepaid, because you can't go over, you'll just not be able to call, (plus most of the prepaid plans, like virgin, have the option that if you run low on minutes you can automatically be charged, never have to worry!!) yeah, its already pricier per minute, at least im only paying for im using and nothing gets lost from month to month.