My first Sanyo phone last for years. Finally I decided to upgrade to another Sanyo because of my excellent experience with my first.Cell phones fall into 2 broad categories, junk and non-junk. Junky phones are the LG-type POS phones and most of what Verizon has to offer.Sprint is a much more consistent vendor of high quality phones.I love this phone. It's a durable phone with a rubber grip, it's light and not too tiny. I am surprised that so many phones are so small. I don't agree that smaller is always better. For a while I used a Samsung phone, the popular one, and found it to bee too small and dainty. It felt like it was going to fall out of my hands all the time.This phone is, construction wise, the best phone I have seen.The speaker phone is incredible. Loud and clear. The rubber grip allows you to hold the phone firmly without requiring a case. The screen is big and colorful. The charge lasts a long time. It DOESN'T have a camera (waste of space, whoopee 1 megapixel).It has a wonderful little feature. It "clicks" when you open it. Many phones click too loudly, but this is absolutely perfect.The plastic used is durable. Some cell phones use cheap plastic. This is more of a polycarbonate, durable and strong.The buttons are nicely laid out. The menu system is navigable, self explanatory. You don't need to RTFM if you don't want to.Some negative things, you can't turn of the out-of-signal beeping. There is supposedly an option to turn that off in the menu but it doesn't seem to work. The way around that is to "silence all" for volume. Also, when closed, the clamshell has a slit wide enough for a coin to slide up and mar the display screen, which happened to mine. You can see a faint outline of the scraping of a quarter. A bit of an annoyance, mostly because my perfect little phone has been "de-flowered".I salute the designers/engineers/marketers at Sanyo for creating an excellent device.