Jesus Greg, I didn't take Iain's post as self-righteous. I understood him as offering a different perspective. Did you run out of fabric softener again?
Iain--I may be misinformed, but shortly before I went to Prague last winter I looked into upgrading my phone. Since I travel to Europe so often I was looking at aquiring a phone that operated on the Euro band as well as the US band. Its my understanding the Euros use GSM--this may be where I am mistaken though. At the time, phones were available that accessed GSM, digital and analog (without switching out the SIM card) but the cost was prohibitive.