I'm in the middle of my two-year contract with Alltel, and I want to pick up a new V9m for considerably less than $500 bucks. My V3m got a little wet a while back, but it still works just fine. I have a feeling it'll short out on me when I least expect it. I checked with Alltel direct here in Charlottesville yesterday, and they are replacing the V3m for insurance claims with V3a's...yuck!

When Verizon takes over, if history is a factor when Alltel bought out Cellular One (the CDMA company, not he GSM), people could upgrade in the middle of the contract if they wanted to do so. As nice as the My Circle is, for my purposes, it ain't that big a deal, and most of my friends have Verizon anyhow.

If anyone knows how soon this is all suppose...
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