http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2170266,00.asp

PC Magazine article shows exactly what's wrong in America with Sellphone
service.....

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:29:06 +0000, Larry home.com> wrote:

Sorry Larry - IMTS died a horrible death years ago. Can't go on
forever with 100 watts of analog power that drained your car battery.

"Larry" home.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9AB475773FFFnoonehomecom@208.49.80.253...

Well, his main complaints seem to be:

1) Just calling something a "RAZR2" phone doesn't tell you much of anything
about what it can actually *do*, since (as it turns out) "RAZR2" refers to the
case style and nothing else.
2) These phones aren't as user customizable/hackable as he'd like.

They're legitimate gripes, although I think they're more a reflection of the
user base. #1 shows how cell phones today are such a commodity that it really
is their "fashion appeal" more so than actually technical features that sell
them, and #2 reflects how the number of people who'd actually *want* to hack
their phone is quite slim. Even with pretty much every phone out there today
able to run downloadable programs in Java or some other format, I imagine that
<1%% of all phone users have ever actually used some 3rd-party piece of
software.