Gaule ji -- You can buy any tri-band or quad-band phone, but make sure freq is 900/1900 Mhz. You can get plenty of selection from Cingular or T-Mobile. Your Best bet is Motorola V551 from cigular; which is loaded with features - QuadBand, Camera, Bluetooth, Speaker phone. If you are looking for inexpensive phone check Sony Ericsson T610 but signal quality of this cell is not that great - still features is good and you can get it $75-$99 after activation, may be free. Also Motorola V300 is not bad choice - battery life is awesome and it is triband with VGA Camera from T-Mobile. You can get all these phones on damn good price if you activate with the service. But my understanding is you don't want to activate service, right? Alright here is a trick- Go to individually own Cellphone store (T-Mobile, Cingular), not Corporate outlet. Most of the time individual store offer phone for free. Activate phone in the store. Don't worry you have 14 days to try it out and cancel the service. After couple of days you can go ahead and cancel your service. You may have to pay activation fee of $35 (T-mobile doesn't charge). Though you may get some phone for free , store may charge you tax of 16.50. Whatever is the price don't use your credit card to make payment, pay with cash. Here is the catch, if store find you terminating the service and not returing the phone and store has your credit card no# they may charge you for phone about $350- so do not pay with credit card. How to cancel ? Call customer service 1-800 no#. Tell them anything -like - you dont have reception in your house or whatever. Customer service will help you cancel ur service. But in worst case scenario they may if you are calling from same store or not... tell them you are calling from the store and sales rep is infront of you. Have your fren (anybody) ready pretend as a sales rep. Sometime Cust Rep may ask for store ID. Check in your contract paper you will find Store ID. You are done... Again now any phones from any providers are locked, you can't use any other SimCard unless you unlock the phone. You can goto www.unlockmyphonenow.com. Follow the steps you will get unlock code within 30 mins. To unlock Motorola phone it will cost you $20. If you wise you can close this deal for less then $100. But still -depends what kind of phone you are buying. Good Luck dude.