I bought mine back in January 2005 and it still works great. I've about worn out the OEM included holster though
Only problem I've ever had was starting about a month ago. Sprint kept pushing PRL and "System" updates to the phone at about 2:30 in the morning. Happened every morning for almost three weeks. Not only did it keep waking me up when it vibrated to alert me that it was going to automatically reboot, but those PRL/System updates kept making me get less and less of a good signal and pushed me more and more into ROAM. I had to hard-reset it back to the default 6.1 load and then reg-hack so it won't auto-update. Now it works great again.
Only problem now is I can't figure out how to force show time for all my texts and get back my black PCM keyboard which oddly isn't an option even off the known cab installer.
I'll switch phones when this one dies or Sprint gives me a free phone comparible to this (and not an android!).