When I bought this phone back in Sep. 08, I expected great results from the phone.  After all, I figured, 'It's an LG'.  Little did I know, months later, that I would run into all sorts of problems like not being able to dial overseas and constantly running out of minutes (which always felt more than $0.20 a minute).  These turned out to be my pet peeves because I bought the phone for those main uses but when they didn't work out as planned, I kept thinking that I should have kept my regular Sprint phone plan, rather than to buy this nearly useless phone.  I found that since Sep., when I first bought the phone, I've "topped up" or filled up my prepaid phone minutes ($20 for 200 minutes, $30 for 400 minutes, $50 for 1,000 minutes) more than I wanted to or even expected to- 5 or 6 times, rather than just 3 or 4 times.