This phone is great as a phone, with strong reception and a nice speakerphone. However, this has no connectivity to your laptop/PDA, since it doesn't have Infra Red or Bluetooth functionality. I have both this phone and the Sony/Ericsson T610, which has great conenctivity.So, there is no way you can sync your phone book or schedules with your laptop/pda. The camera is great, takes decent quality VGA photos. However, again the only option is to e-mail it, which costs money. You can not download those photos to your laptop/pda.Overall, I recommend this to people who just need a nice cell phone, but don't care for any connectivity to their other devices like laptop or pda. The phone does have WAP access so you can still browse the web from your cell phone.