I think most people who have or want this phone aren't wanting all the features. they are just wanting a phone where all the menus talk and where they can manage the phonebook and check their status information without paying a bundle for the software plus phone or having to do or pay for installing of software. And Besides this, not everybody thinks tinier and tinier is better and better. However, your point about the price is well-taken and without the T-mobile subsidy it's prohibitively expensive for most of us for what it does. There are of course the LG phones for Verizon users, but I personally don't like flip phones. So for now I'll continue with Sprint and my nice candybar-style sanyo phone, which has tons of features I can't access and cost as much as the Owasys but at least has a feel and size and keypad with which I can live and gives me some features via voice command that make it somewhat accessible. Cell phone choices are a very personal thing, and one person's treasured phone may be another person's hunk of junk--smile! -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also".
