I sale about 25 Hybrid phones a month, and yes if you are with Sprint currently and you switch to a Hybrid, it's pointless, you're losing coverage so you may think it sux. But all my customers currently with Nextel now,on the old Iden network, who have switched to the Hybrid, have gotten nothing but better signal. They now have both networks so where the old nextels didn't work at all, they now do with the telephone. Not the walkie talkie in a dead zone. That's what my customers are loving about it. They at least have something to talk on. Several new models will be coming out, we've just gotten the 902, it's bad, and I agree, they are all ugly as hell!!