[Brando56894]

why not see if you can get a battery for it cheap off of ebay or some place?

i have the LG vx8300, its a damn good phone with a lot of features. it accepts microSD cards up to 2GB (well the phones with the newest firmware do, if you happen to get an older one you can still have it reflashed), plays music out of its (very loud) stereo speakers, you can record videos until all your available memory runs of (if you had a 1 or 2gb card you could probably record a 2 hour video) is vcast capable (which isnt really worth the money in my opinion), with a little encoding you can play movies/tv shows on your phone, has a variety of great games available for it (if youre into that), i could go on and on... the only thing it took awhile to get used to is its really thick (about an inch or so), and the woman that sold it to me said the front buttons wont activate when its not in music player mode, she lied. i'll be sittin in class and all of the sudden you'll hear slipknot or metallica blasting out of my pocket. thats the only bad thing i can think about the phone.