I used this phone for over a year. Texting is incredibly awkward, all lower-case, and you can only see seven characters at a time. I got used to it, but I pre

I used this phone for over a year. Texting is incredibly awkward, all lower-case, and you can only see seven characters at a time. I got used to it, but I preferred not to. Address book is stored only in the SIM, which I think is fairly unique in the US. MMSes show up as weird bits of text with URLs, but that might have been a by-product of T-Mobile's service. It was solidly constructed, and had excellent reception and battery life. I'm not sure I saw the "500 hours" of standby time, but I doubt I went 20 days without a text message or a phone call. Heavy use and I still had to charge it every couple of days. Regular to light use and I could go a week.