i have serious beef with the fact that all the good phones are sold overseas. i also have issues with how fragile cell phones are- we take them literally everywhere, and i think they should be able to handle it (falls, water, etc.). i wish the cell phone industry wouldn't baby us with cheap products.
i recently got this:
it has pretty good reviews. it's one of sony's walkman phones and i just bought a 2 gig micro card so i can actually put music in it. i think i actually like the fact that the memory card slot is under the back plate; while a lot of phones have it on the outside and it's accessible, i'm paranoid and think that dirt could get in there really easily. it took some getting used to the soft keys (i had a nokia before; i hate nokias now), but all in all, it's an easy to use phone.