It actually sounds pretty clear to me that you should wait out your term and not buy into the hype (just yet). There's alot that's yet to be seen how it will pan out. That being said, the phone in it's current incarnation was almost enough for me to keep and be happy with, but not quite. The limitations of the device really bug me. I don't quite agree with the previous sentiment that "everything it does, it does well" and that other phone power users are "wearing blinders". Please, it's a phone and getting this one isn't going to help you "think outside of the box". There's a good chance I may end up repurchasing mine, but having gotten the need to have the device right away out of my system, i'm going to wait and see what the updates look like, 3rd party apps, fixes, etc. Hopefully this doesn't sound too negative, I really enjoyed the interface/stylus-less multi-touch makes you wonder why you ever needed a stylus to begin with, and the virtual keyboard is actually fun to type on (I came from the 6700 too, I found i could type a bit better on the iphone). It's hard for me to read alot of these rah rah posts though when it's clear that the device isn't perfect (which one is for first gen?) and that while most of the non-3g stuff is most likely just a matter of time software updates, bailing on a 5-6 months left contract unless you get some sort of ETF-safe out seems kind of foolish to me (I ditched mine and ate the ETF, but i'm also kind of irrational with regards to these types of gadgets). I'll say one thing though, if you do get the iphone, it'll probably be easy to adjust but hard to switch back. Oh yeah, one last thing about the 3G, the pages basically just start loading right away on edge, EV-DO does has to initiate a connection, but once it's up, it's no contest (mostly). The speeds I got were good enough for browsing, probably not so great for streaming media.