OK - talked to Verizon about the whole required data thing it was explained to me this way - any new PDA phone LAUNCHED after the 14th of November will require the 29.99 a month plan at minimum. So as I understand it it is by model. For this reason, you could buy a 6800 off of Ebay or wherever and jump back and forth from phone to phone like double dutch and still be just fine for elective data - YEAH.

This is unrelated, but I won't be surprised when VZW yanks the 6800 here in about a month or so once the Touch Pro gets a foothold. They already yanked the 760 - is it just me or did that bad boy have a short shelf-life.

So, anyway, I will definitely be fighting the urge to get anything new for a LONG time. As I said earlier, it will have to be something groundbreaking (like winmo 7 possibly) to get me to even consider it. For now, it's just me and my 6800 with the 730 on deck as a backup for the foreseeable future.

Dominick, weighing it all out, I would say I am glad I jumped to the 6800 - I love having the cam, gps, winmo 6.1, threaded sms (i hate text messaging, but this helps), better keyboard, custom roms, HTC build quality, HUGE 16gb sd card capacity, and yeah just about everything else. If this bad boy had a vert slider, and more ram - it would be my ideal phone.