Hmpfh ergg tyhhu jjas. At least, that what this review would sound like if you were listening to it on the VX8300. Me and my wife each bought the phone with Verizon's "New after 2" plan, and chose this one. It does have a good (not great) camera, the MP3 player plays MP3s, and the micro SD card is nice. My phone sounded OK ( not great - OK), but my wife's phone was almost totally unintelligible, she couldn't understand a word being said on it. We went back to the store, thinking it was defective. After trying 5 others, we realized it was not just hers. Mine was actually the exception - and even then, the sound was not great, more like "barely intelligible". We were upgrading from a Motorola V276, which sounded WAYYY better, no contest, just didn't have the bells and whistles. I regret getting this phone, and advise people who actually have to listen to phone calls, not play MP3s or text messages, to avoid it. There are way too many others that sound much better.