I agree wholeheartedly. I have AT&T and need a new phone since my blackberry is dying. I thought about the $99 iphone 3g, but then considered the fact that you do everything but make calls through the itunes store...And since Apple has a strong sense of xenophobia and all I have at home is Linux, that is unacceptable.

So its off to some other phone...Not sure what yet. And still happily have my N810.

Thats something that really irritates me. The phone vendors and the service providers have some kind of plot to keep phones off of the different networks. Since I have AT&T, that means I am limited to the iphone, or the selection of other crappy phones. I have to go to TMobile to get an Android phone, or Sprint for the Palm pre or Verizon for the Blackberry Storm (I know, Verizon uses CDMA rather than GSM...)

But the vendors should make all phones available to all services.

jalladin, you're at Kunsan? How do you like the Land of the Morning Calm?
--vr