I tried very hard to hold off in buying a 3G phone, but I finally gave up. Yesterday I purchased Samsung SCH-M620(Ultra Messaging Smartphone, a.k.a. BlackJack) with SKT's 3G+ service.

Some of you may ask why I stayed with 2G for such a long time...well, in Korea, for 3G services, it requires a new number - a new prefix "010".  I just got lazy and didn't wanted to change my number which I had it for over 10 years.

Well...I just bit the bullet - there were more benefits than need for keeping my old number:

• For those of us not using 3G services have probably experienced where our phone do not roam everywhere.  With all the travelling I am doing, I really needed to have my mobile phone roam everywhere - my old 2G phone could not roam in Japan, Singapore, India, etc...
• Wireless e-mail service is not popular at all in Korea.  I didn't wanted to commit to Blackberry device and service which probably only has less than a thousand user base in Korea. With SKT's 3G+ service, IMAP e-mail feature is just an added value.
  
• It provides high speed Internet access thru HSDPA and direct access thru Wi-Fi if needed.
  
• I am not sure how useful this feature will be for me, but it also provides videophone service.
  

It's not perfect.  I had to give up DMB services (Digital TV) with this phone