I owned the Motorola v710 for four days. I'm a fairly technical savvy sort of guy, but this phone completely overwhelmed me. There's alot of features on this phone. If you're in to features (mostly well implemented), then you'll likely enjoy this phone. If you just want a phone for making phone calls, ala minimalism, this is not the phone for you. Unfortunately I fall into the latter category.I bought this phone with the Bluetooth wireless headset. It took me awhile to figure out how to install, configure, and then activate the headset. Once I did it worked great. Sound quality on both ends was really really good. On the downside, the wireless headset has a separate battery, and must be recharged separately. I tried leaving the wireless headset on my head so I could answer incoming calls but the battery would die before anyone would call me.The camera in this phone is great. The pictures are high quality, although at night and when moving the photos are marginable. Viewing the photos on the camera's screen is deceiving: the photos actually look better if you can get them off the phone. It wasn't hard to figure out how to email the pictures I took on the phone directly to my blog, and once I did that I could see how well they turned out. On the downside, Verizon doesn't currently have a plan that allows you to avoid sending pictures off your phone without paying them. The deluxe picture sending package was $15/month, and only allows you to send 40 pictures off your phone per month. This makes it seriously prohibitive for using it as a serious camera. I've heard other people find ways of circumventing this using a USB cable, but I didn't try that.I really liked the ability to snap a picture of someone in my contacts, and then when they'd call me their picture would show up on the external screen. There's something pleasingly evocative about seeing your mother-in-law's face on your phone when she calls you.The screen is bright, large, and easy to read. I couldn't figure out a way to configure the external screen so that it wouldn't constantly say Verizon on it. I'm not sure if that's possible without 3rd party modification.The battery life on this phone seems poor. It was quickly running out of battery if I was actively using the phone and fussing with contacts. I also didn't like that the external screen seemed to go to sleep often and quickly. You have to touch a button if you want to see what time it is.In summary, if you're big into features this phone is great and flashy. If you're into simplicity, battery life, and ease of use look elsewhere. I traded mine in for a Nokia 6015i, and I'm much happier.