[Ali Ahmed]

In my opinion, I think having a cell phone is pretty important. At least one that can make calls. Even for middle and high school and even some college kids. The reason for this is mainly for emergencies. Just in case, you know. But when high schoolers are walking around with Blackberries is just plain useless. I can't see why a 12-17 year old will ever need PDA functions. I mean, my dad just bought a Nokia E61, PDA phone, because he's now running a business. But I do think that for high schoolers having a camera phone would be nifty. Because sometimes those Kodak moments come up and you won't have your digital camera with you. As an example, I bought a Nokia N80 because it had a 3 megapixel camera, plus some other cool features, but mainly for the camera because I can't take my digital camera with me everywhere and trust me it has been extremely useful. As far as mp3 capabilities goes, it depends on your usage and if you own an iPod/ any other mp3 player. I mean, if you have an iPod I see no use in buying a phone with a music player.

But these days, all phone obviously make calls and all phones can send texts. The next thing to worry about, in my opinion, would be the camera. Do you want a megapixel? 2? 3? 5?! If you get a phone with a decent camera it will almost always have the ability to play music. But the big thing after that would be PDA functions like sending e-mail and using fax and what not. That I think should be left for the businessmen and executives and for people who basically need them.

So, what I'm saying is, people who need PDA features can have a PDA phone and people who just want to call and text should just stick to their basic phone.