>My old cellphone recently expired. I ensure that my cellphone is always
>"trailing edge" technology - I object in principle (and in practice ;-) )
>at
>staying up with the latest gee gaws at early innovator prices.

A wise philosophy, Russell.  When my (and my wife's) phones pooped
out last year, we contacted Verizon about getting new ones.  The
only ones they were willing to meet us on (i.e., give us the "New-every-
two" a bit early) were the spankin' new LG VX6000's.

Flash forward four months and we've gone through 5 of them between
us (this was last August).  Apparently LG didn't think that any kind of
permanent connection between the main PCB in the unit and the
antenna was necessary, so the contact was being "un-made".

Not ready for prime-time, and it ended up costing us more after all the
rebates and stuff than it would just to buy it off-the-shelf now.  Add in
5 round trips to the nearest sizable city (45 minutes at highway speeds)
and we'd have been better off sticking with the old ones.  :-p

Mike H.

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