THat'd be great, but you'll still get nailed with the fee just for having a "smartphone" that all the carriers add. I really don't see the point of paying this when the only time I'd use their 3G network is in emergencies if wi-fi hotspots aren't available. The pricing schemes when you jump to a smart phone is ridiculous.

My question is will these be hampered by the tethering to verizon services seen on VZW phones somehow, android may be open sourc ebut I wouldn't put it past verizon to handicap these things with their draconian lockdown measures.

D-Pad on the left WTF

I know they don't own the phone manufacturing so can't control the price, but you'd think for the amount they'll milk you for over the course of a two year ocntract they could do a little better.

Nice I'd like please

Nah I know they seldom make production looking the same but this is so bland

Ick the concept car was beautiful, this thing looks like a generic POS compared to it

I don't think I'm old, although in IT I guess 33 might be old. They should have allowed a customizable ribbon at least, because I'm finding I have to click to different ribbon tabs just to find the appropriate items. I'll grant usability with some fucntions has improved but others sufffered unnecessarily I think. One item I used often in word was using find and replace to parse out codes with carriage returns, some may know ^P is the carriage return in odler versions, this and a number of other old useful macros no longer work. Further, I don't know about others experiences but at least at my company I find it is incredibly slow at opening larger documents on a LAN, sometimes choking entirely. It took 2 years to convince them I needed more RAM so I could use Word and Excel at the same time without crashing the computer, but this new version seems slower than the old on my new machine that's easily 3 times the RAM and twice the CPU of the old one.

Actually I find their older versions work better than the new. Productivity and usefulness for those familiar with the previous ones has greatly diminished. We just finally upgraded to 2007 and I spend half my day finding simple items I used to use a million tiems per day.

Discounts are always nice :)