The Motorola Adventure has been just that.  An adventure.  Not the worst phone I''ve ever tried, but overall a disappointment.1 - When I want to use the internet, about 15% of the time it locks/freezes.  I have to take the battery out and replace it 3 times or so to get it to reset.2 - The battery life is below average. The battery itself is doomed well within a year and needs to be replaced. Turns out it''s because the charger was "overcharging" it, so I bought a new convservative charger for about $32, rather than use the one that the phone comes with. This seemed to alleviate the problem of burning through batteries.3 - For someone who texts or likes to take pictures or download ringtones, the memory space is completely inadequate.4 - Although it somehow qualifies as a "rugged" phone, the screen will still crack, it is not recessed enough nor rubberized, it''s just a hard plastic shell.5 - The camera zoom is very blurry.6 - The internet apps are so poor, especially driving directions and the e-mail app that asks for you to re-enter my password three or four times, leading me to believe I was using the wrong password, even though I was not!7 - When I lose bars/service and a call is about to be dropped, I must end the call in order to call the person back. Then all of a sudden, the service is back up to 1 or 2 bars, as soon as I hang up.  If I completely lose signal, I get an audible alert and a "call dropped" message but when it is in 0 bars, I must manually hang up because the signal cannot be restored automatically (after passing through zero bars, there is no coming back), but there is no indication warning me that the call has been dropped already.8 - There have been no visible upgrades. Verizon does not actively support this phone.9 - If you e-mail yourself a ringtone to vzwpix.com, you can''t set it as a ringtone. This way, verizon can keep monopolizing your ringtone purchases, you can''t use third party services sufficiently.10- My replacement charger, one that was sold to me by verizon store purportedly to work with this phone, works okay for AC power but not for transferring data or charging via the USB port. You apparently need a special charger for that basic functionality. The phone does not have universal port nor any kind of commonly used adapter can go with this phone. It is just a devious method for them to be able to sell more chargers!The only positives are the compact size, the add-on games of tetris and scrabble are pretty true to form, and that''s about it.