so its best to wait in your opinion?

If you like the fusic, you'll probably would like the M520, Rant or Highnote (which are all sliders) The lotus and Katana Eclispe are also very good phones. As far as next year I can't comment, but you always know one thing can be the latest and greatest for a few months before something comes to replace it.

Rant looks the best out of them, but i have always had bad luck with the speaker quality on samsung flip phones.

I like the centro but the buttons are too small, same with the lotus.

I would like a qwerty keypad and maybe a touchscreen if its available. Thats why the rant is somewhat intrguing to me right now.

Yeah I really like the rant as far as features and price. I have heard of only one known defect with the phone and it was minor (something to do with the one click trying to add an item while in use)

Key feature that I like about it are;
4 row QWERTY
2Mp camera (Slow shutter rate as on all Samsungs)
Application manager
One click software
Fit to hand

The Instinct is the only other one I'd put in the mix for you, $80 more and it's all touchscreen and faster internet and engineered OS. But it does require a plan that includes everything for it to be serviced.