It seems that Joel didn't like the phone.

I certainly agree with this observation:

"Turn on the phone. Go into the MP3 player again. There’s no signal, and, guess what? You can’t get into to the MP3 player unless you can establish a network connection to the Sprint Music Store. Even to play your own MP3s!

OK, so this is an MP3 player that doesn’t really work on the subway and won’t work on a plane, the two places I’m most likely to listen to MP3s. Not very appealing."

I'm surprised by how many phones still make this mistake. On my last phone, I couldn't even see what time it was if I had no signal. That is just dumb.