[GadgetKen]

The deal extreme offer looks fair...article I saw had a suggested retail of $150, and you would expect a little more to cover their shipping cost.

Warning from mycellwatch.com forums is that you don't want to put any of these phones in flight mode (mobile phone off but everything else works) if it has a software version before mid-November because they may freeze up due to a software error. Apparently they rushed the first phones to market before they were thoroughly tested. Mine is OK, it has a Nov 17th software date. Can be checked with *#8375# code on phone.

I tried a T-Mobile USA reseller prepaid sim chip called Tuyo in it. Activated fine, and I set up the voicemail and tweaked the GPRS/GSM settings so I could access their website store in the browser (ringtones, wallpapers, etc.). Wow, that's an incredibly small screen for looking at the web!