We got this phone for our 12 year old middle schooler and she absolutely loves it.  She fell in love with it at first sight, loves the white and green color combo.  She says texting is so quick now with the keyboard and she loves all the applications and extras.  In fact I'm a bit jealous of all it's features compared to my Balckberry Pearl.  For your money it's packed and good buy compared to more spendy phones like the iphone and the Pantech Duo she was also looking at.  My only complaint is the lack of accesories such as cases right now.....but it's new and I'm sure we will start seeing them.