I didn’t have my II for a year, before these came out. Of course, I wanted one. So for my birthday, in November, I got it.

At first, I was thrilled. About two hours later, I was bored.

The MP3 player was an amazing addition-as was the new choose your own background feature. However, my iPod sort of made the former obsolete, and the latter only had four options.

I loved the built-in yahoo and msn messengers, but really, they weren’t all that amazing. I’d expected the aim at least to be updated or changed a bit somehow, but, no.

Honestly, probably the coolest thing about this phone, in retrospect, was the new scroll button, as opposed to the scroll wheel of the II-which eventually became prone to getting stuck which was so annoying when trying to play Tetris. But I digress.

I ended up experimenting with this phone for about a week, before deciding to go back and get an MDA instead(squee!).

But that’s just me-I know other people that had the II and hate the III, but it seems like people that haven’t had a sidekick period LOVE the III.