You guys forgot to mention the stellar call quality, in addition to the web browser. Well, that's what PhoneArena claims at least in their review.

And Samuraisul, you make sure you can use it with your network before you buy it. I find it hard to believe you can't use this on T-Mobile USA's network, especially considering it has the 1700 band, and the beauty of a GSM carrier is that you can just switch the SIM card to whatever GSM phone you want and it will work.

Looks nice on the outside.

Oh, almost forgot about that ridiculous looking three row on-screen keyboard that replicates the hardware one from the N900. Yeah, that's gotta go. Put a normal looking keyboard in there.

Good point Omagus.

I'm gonna be furious if they pull this crap. I happen to like S60 5th despite what people say, and I'm not happy with all the shortcomings of Maemo as it exists right now (no MMS support, no audio equalizers, lack of ringer profiles, no voice dialing, NO PORTRAIT screen orientation for anything except the phone application, lack of more options for video recording settings, and I'm sure there's more). I'm not saying S60 5th is perfect. By all means, it isn't. But if the double tap to open things was removed and replaced with a tap and hold for an options menu when needed, if it had a few more homescreens you could customize, and if the hardware supporting the OS were improved to help it work faster, it would be much much better. I could care less about fancy screen transitions, and the colors of S60 5th I like, and if you don't, there's themes for that.

If they fix all the things wrong with Maemo right now, add the things S60 has and can do that it's missing, keep a home/menu button on the phone (call it the Maemo key in remembrance of the Symbian key), and don't remove the calling buttons from future phones, I'm pretty much game for it. I say pretty much because software is nothing without great hardware accompanying it, and I refuse to buy a phone without both.

"AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon's "There's A Map For That" advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon's ads are true and the truth hurts."

LOL

I'll take a 6600 Slide over that Shine any day of the week.

I guess the average Joe really doesn't know what the hell 3G even refers to. Otherwise, I know exactly what Verizon is saying in their ads. And you know what? I laugh everytime I see one, even though I have AT&T. Stop bitching AT&T and do something about it like grow your 3G network. I don't give a shit about EDGE. I care about 3G.

This will NOT generate mass market appeal, at least I don't think so, based on the fact that it's a landscape orientation only phone, and it's size isn't exactly thin, which apparently is in. Otherwise it's missing the same things the iPhone was missing, that apparently didn't bother enough people to stop them from buying it, except me. You know... MMS, no calling buttons, no equalizers in the music player, and no voice dialing among other things. So, maybe I'm the only one who won't buy something like this purely for those reasons, and millions will flock to this device as well. I wonder how many people will dump their N97 for this...

Could they pick a stupider car that this?? Why not a Camaro SS or Mustang GT500 or a Lincoln MKS?

There are a lot of ingorant and naive people in this country who would believe Verizon is talking about voice service. So I do see where AT&T is coming from. Still, this is funny. Their 3G coverage does need a lot of work.