if you don't want to read this whole thing, take-home message is: you can get a phone with the same **useful** features that this phone has, for less money. but the phone looks so so pretty. my friends are all jealous of my phone, cuz all the features it has that their phones don't. but you really don't use most of the stuff this phone has.also, it's kinda heavy. that motorola razor phone (the thin one) looks cool. you should also look into that phone.i paid $400 for mine, for all the features the phone has...it wasn't worth it.i use mp3 player, speech commands (but it usually doesn't work correctly) camera, and speakerphone (this works good).i don't use, and i probably never WILL use, the bluetooth stuff, internet (you pay a monthly fee), video camera.battery life is pretty bad. you'll be charging the phone every night while you sleep. or else it beeps loudly and very annoying.the camera sucks. you need a LOT of BRIGHT light (like sunlight), or else it's pretty much black-and-white. the phone has a light, but it really doesn't help. bad quality and little clarity. even a disposable camera works better.you can text/pic message your friends. you pay for this stuff too. but it's fun to text your people. you can also download games for a one-time fee.phone comes with a memory slot. you pretty much NEED to buy that $50 memory card (and a port that'll transfer files onto the card), cuz there's hardly any free space on the phone (you probably couldn't put one full song on the phone). they say you get 10 mb. that's not much space (about 2-3 full songs), but most of it's already used up on non-deleteable sounds/pics. side note: for ringtones, make it mono (coming through one speaker)...that cuts file size in half. download the music program "audacity" to cut songs short for ringtones and change to mono.speakers work good. speakerphone works real good too. you can give each person in your phonebook their own ringtone (but ringtones MUST be stored on phone, and there's really not much space available).volume is pretty good on this baby.