Sony Sprint PCS Phone Review

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I signed up for the chartered member rates just before the offer ended. With the home rate plan I managed to rack up several hundred minutes of long distance calls while I was travelling. Since these minutes come out of my free 400 minutes, I ended up paying 15 cents long distance which is much cheaper than calling cards and of course hotel rates.
Home Rates also allows me to make local call in the home rate cities away from home and debit the minutes from my normal free minutes. So I can make local calls in a remote city virtually for free.
When I am using the phone to make long distance call, I get echo on my end. That is quite annoying. I don't use Sprint long distance for my wired phones so I don't know if this is a normal problem for Sprint.
Coverage in the greater Boston area is not good enough. It is very spotty in Lexington. It does not work indoors in parts of Belmont.

The thumb dial lets me operates the phone with one hand. I usually just scroll the dial directory to the number that I wanted.
When you are entering text into the phone (directory, for example) the phone has a smart advance feature. So if you used the "1" key to enter either A, B or C, and you press another key, it assumes correctly that you are done with the first key and advances the cursor over without you having to do it yourself.
Once the phone recorded a number because you dialed it. You can scroll back to that number and save it without having to reenter the number.
Many of the functions requires you to push the thumb dial to activiate a function. The dial on my phone is so sensitive that often I ended up invoking the scroll down function instead because if I don't push the dial straight in, it ended up rotating just a bit.