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Thats technically $100 cheaper than buying the phone without contract, so its a good deal i guess. Not to mention every store is sold out for the next few weeks.
i lucked out and came across one tonight at patrick henry mall...was getting ready to buy a blackberry curve, since the storm was sold out everywhere...was talking to the guy about the storm and he said he had one in the back that he was holding for a guy, but the guy never came in...i told him to activate it quick lol.....awesome phone, glws
full retail price is actually 499.99. this DOES have the most up to date software on it. the software that most of the stores have on there demo units was the older version. this is one reason that the stores had such little stock. our first shipment of phones was all the older sofware and the rest of the phones were held to do the software upgrades. Thats the only reason i took it out of the box was to power it up and do the update. There is also supose to be another update in december sometime. This first update did fix a lot of the freezing issues and lag when switching from applications.