[glitchbit]

well I ordered one off ebay for $155 and M$ paid me $38 back, so it came out to $116. I was aware of the $50 deal but I am not quite over my 2yr contract with sprint just yet and I bought it to play with android OS.

Also I did not want to haggle with sprint and get locked into another contract simply because well partly because I am on a family plan and I want my next phone to be an official Android phone on the sprint network. I don't have much choice around here, sprint is the only legitimate cell company in my area imo. They own all the good towers and the ones they don't own are old GSM towers owned by some mom and pop shop who refuses to update their towers.

It is funny though seeing how many people buy GSM phones and fake their address to get on the AT&T network (for their iphone), but none of them have a local number and the reception is bad....