^^. Every phone by them uses the same "menu" which consists of like you said, no originality. I loved my old T-mo V3r as I could mod the menus to look anyway I wanted them to. Verizon securely locks all of their phones to keep you from saving money by making your own tones and downloading your own tunes. I think they charged us once because we put music on a MSDHC card and put in the phone. Which strikes as illegal to me, but maybe I should read teh fine print.