[texasranger]

well it depends. most cell phone customers are cingular, and you could get free mobile to mobile and nights and weekends. If lots of your friends use cingular, then minutes wouldn't be too much of a problem. I'm not sure about international, though.

what i really hate about verizon is that they don't let phone makers control the software on the phones, verizon does. That's why verizon didn't sign a contract with apple for the iPhone. and if you want to do off the fly bluetooth file transfers, verizon locks it or doesn't support it.

I'm not that much of a talker, so minutes aren't much of a problem.