I can assure you that you won't be able to do your own. They control the network and the phone's firmware... It's their value add, and the entire protocol is designed around THEM being the only one capable of the downloads. Yeah, It sucks, but hey... it's a phone.

Voice command works pretty darn well for me... It makes switching phones much easier in the future.. no phonebooks to transfer.

BB is Big brother. Monitoring software for my networks. I've got it configured such that if I have a serious problem, it sends me a page with the information. Then, thanks to the WML, I can get to my main page, and ack. the problem, route it, or see what the real issue is.

I've never noticed the buzzing with the backlight. Maybe I'm getting old. I remember the original indiglo stuff would buzz, but haven't heard it on mine.. (just checked)