-BL> It is really and truly the way to go and there is no
-BL> substitute
-BL> for a hands-free in a car.
You hit that nail right on the head. I insist on using a 3 watt phone with 
the antenna on the roof and hands free in the car. My phone calls are 
measured in half hours and hours rather than minutes. Holding a handset that 
long is a pain. Our last bill had 4400 minutes on it. Because of the second 
phone we added to the account, I expect to hit around 6 or 7k minutes this 
month.
I have a Mitsubishi Diamondtel 92T and the handsfree is great. Sounds great 
to the people on the other end and they sound great in the car.
We just picked up a Motorola TX-400, it's not bad but the HF isn't as good as 
the Mits.
A friend of mine got a hands free kit to work with his Motorola DPC-550 flop 
phone and surprisingly it sounds great. It's just a $80 thing he picked up at 
Sams.
I've been keeping an eye on PCS too, haven't seen anything except handheld 
phones for the PCS systems. Hopefully they'll introduce some real phones 
eventually.
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