>Charles, if it will help I have a very early CDMA brick phone that will work on Verizon and which is extremely difficult to lose. Also this model is not burdened with blueteeth, 3G or any of that sort of malarkey. As for the wired bakelite phone idea- nah, it'll never catch on- people are too threatened and unwilling to consider change. ;-)

I have read that the early "brick" cell phones are used as fashion accessories by some college students. They're so unhip they're hip.