I love having a cell phone. I especially like the e-mail function. I don’t need to find a computer to get in touch with friends or family in Canada. I can just send an e-mail with my cell phone. I even send photos. It is a great way to keep in touch. It is convenient in other ways as well. I don’t know how many times I have sent a question to someone I know in Canada and gotten a reply before a lesson was over. I use the SD Card to store photos from our wedding and those I have taken with my digital camera. I have had a cell phone in Japan for a long time. Last year I finally got one that was bilingual. Nowadays they are pretty well all bilingual. The Japanese Vodafone manual is two books. The English part of the phone manual is only about 6 pages. I can figure out most of the functions without the instruction manual but I am missing a lot of information. It would be nice to know more about what my phone can do. I use it to make and receive calls, take photos and videos, send e-mail, and play music. I have no real idea how to use the internet or how much it costs to do so. Most of the websites are for Japanese so I really am not missing much, I guess. My last Vodafone had an English manual posted on the net that I could download. My current 601SH doesn’t (T_T). I wonder what the next generation of phones will do?