UTStarcom XV6800 Cell Phone

Pros: Good battery life, slide out physical keyboard, bluetooth and wireles
Cons: Cumbersome speaker jack, program memory barely adequate

I'm always on the hunt for a single device that will do everything I need when I'm on the road.  I haven't quite found it yet but I'm getting much closer.  With the XV6800 and a few free apps I'm closer than ever to my goal of shedding the ...

Pros: The phone itself may have been OK if the service from Verizon wasn't so poor.
Cons: The touch screen will often redial the last person called. The alarm sounds change themselves.

In the 8 months I have had it I don't think there has been a day when it didn't do something wrong, or at least strange.  The latest is that it overheats and wears out the battery in 3 hours.  The battery has never lasted more than a day because the service in Central Massachusetts is so bad the phone is constantly searching.  It has never hot synched properly, sometimes copying all of my work addresses onto itself while deleting any common names with their phone numbers from the phone.  I just brought all of this to the attention of my local Verizon office and they sent me a new phone, with no battery and no back cover.  And no instructions on how to convert all of my data to the new phone. I have internet service through Verizon, ($45 per month) but I could never get to Google.com until Verizon made some razor sharp adjustment.