I've owned the e61 and I can tell you without a doubt that it is brutally slow. Sure it works great for the first week or two, but then after you've populated it with contacts, filled up your browser cache with web pages and photos, and got 100+ text messages and emails stored, this thing slows down to a crawl. The call quality is great and the browser is the best, but the speed of the OS is a deal killer.
Why even wait for a stripped version when you can just get an E61?? I mean, you can get and E61 from ebay brand new all day long and then use it with your own carrier. I've been using an E61 with cingular for 6 months.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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