And note, this isn't even ALL text messages. This is just the messages that go between carriers. From the actual article:

"said it delivered 95.4 billion inter-carrier text messages in the first half of 2008"

No telling how many more messages internal to VZW or ATT went uncounted.

ATT offers discounts to IU students -- 12% of the voice plan. Basically, this covers the taxes and a little more, but is nice nonetheless.

Actually, this is more slotted against the E50, rather than the N95. Just look at the specs of the Z8 and the E50 (since we don't have Z10 specs, but if it is the successor, it will have similar, if upgrade, specs), and you will see that.
UIQ 3.1 against S60v3.
Both are aimed mostly at business users who want a little fun.
Neither have qwerty.
No touch screen in either case.

Now, I'm no fan of Motorola, but calling this phone pathetic compared to the N95 is really missing the point.

And this is the last time I feed the trolls.

Having owned the p990 for nearly 7 months, I have to admit that I'm still happy I purchased it. Yes, it has its quirks, and yes it has bugs. But it's still more reliable than any windows mobile device I've ever used (yet to try a win mo 6 device...maybe the kaiser?).

I've not seen the "restart to improve performance" message in nearly 4 months. Plus, the phone gets rebooted once a week, at 7PM on sunday night, for its weekly back up...and at no other time. And I've not had memory issues except occasionally. I run TomTom fairly often, at least 1 game every day, take photos, etc. Maybe I'm not hard enough on my phone, but I've not had many in the way of problems. Just lucky?

A nokia with US 3G? I'm in.

Well, useful if you really don't want a sprint contract.

Not only that, but they always show up crippled by the operators.

I'm in.