Everyone else -- and that would be the vast majority of the population -- just wants a phone to make and receive phone calls and, below a certain age, send text messages,
Say what? Texting is not age limited. I'm 46 and I bought my Sidekick for the sole reason that it has a full QWERTY keyboard. My husband and (grown) daughter and I use text messages literally all.the.time. They work in jobs where they can't answer their cell if it rings, but texts aren't a problem. We almost never make voice calls.. everything is text. I like my Sidekick, despite its software limitations. TMobile didn't have the Android/Google phone 3 years ago or I'd have one of those. And for those of you who have never seen one, it's called the Google phone because it has a Google logo on the faceplate.
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