After owning and enjoying a Nokia 3650 with many of the same features, I decided it was time to retire the giant formfactor of the 3650 and step up to a sleek, sexy little thing. I've had the T809 since the first week it was available in stores (12/05) and I can offer my impressions:- Looks awesome, turns heads, makes people want it. In this way it's a "Razr-killer."- The screen is incredible - vivid, bright, and very high-resolution. It's tough to see in direct sunlight - don't get this phone if you spend a lot of time outside - but for nocturnal types or barhoppers it's unbeatable.- Interfacing with your PC is really easy thanks to the software they provide.- It has a ton of features for such an easy-to-carry package.- Did I mention it's easy to carry? And tough, too - I've dropped it on concrete about 8 times from a distance of 4-5 feet and it still works perfectly.However...- The text messaging implementation is awful. I don't want to upset myself by going into detail - and it seems some other reviews have mentioned this in more detail - but it's terrible. Basically, the software is incredibly poorly thought out in terms of usability. If you enjoy text messaging, I'd advise that you run from this phone.- The camera is high-res - 1.3 megapixel - but it's super hard to get a shot that's not blurred in some way. I wish they had put some steadicam technology into the software.- I have heard the opposite on forums, etc., but in my experience the reception this phone gets is not so hot. That said, I've never dropped a call that started with more than zero bars (when not in a car, etc.).- The "slide" functionality seems to just emulate the "end" button when closing it during an operation - you can't, for example, do something that requires the keypad and then slide the phone closed before the operation is complete. Sending text messages? Gotta wait until the message is fully sent before sliding the phone closed. It's annoying that they didn't spend more time on how this sliding feature could be more useful or convenient.- I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't play a lot of my MP3s... I think it had something to do with the encoding - bitrate, or something like that. At this point in the lifecycle of MP3 technology, I don't want to mess with MP3s that work on my computer and iPod in order to get them on my phone... it should "just work." Skip this phone if you want a good MP3 player.- Getting videos on this thing is almost as hard as getting them onto the PSP. Skip this feature altogether.- There's no way to get the phone to vibrate and ring at the same time. The only option is to have it vibrate a couple rings, then play your ringtone, which is really inconvenient - I set it down at home, walk into the other room, and once I hear it ring it's too late to get to it in time. Worse, changing the ring type is nowhere near as easy as the one-touch profile swap on my old Nokia - you have to navigate through a ton of ridiculous menus to change the ringing options, which (for me) negates the functionality.- The volume is not loud enough at its highest setting to compensate for imperfect circumstances (friend using headset, etc.).Overall I'd say that this phone is crippled by poor execution on the user interface side - too many engineers, not enough designers. It's too bad because fundamentally it seems pretty solid - as a phone, it works well, and it looks sexy as hell. Despite those strengths, every time I use it for text messaging, I want to throw it against the wall.