Thought this may be of note to all you multicultured types that fly back and fourth from USA to EU or Asia. This new line of Vodafone handsets (has been in Japan for few months now though) truely bridges the Multi band gap. The phone I got recently is the Vodafone 802se (or v800 in the EU). Its a TriBand and UMTS handset that works in all major continents and top level mobile phone frequency ranges, not to mention the 1.3MP camera (up to 1280x1024), support for MPEG videos, MP3s and Ringtones, Flashlite (a mobile version of Macromedia Flash) and Memory Stick Duo onboard (I have a 256MB one for mine), you can get up to 1GB! There are others in the lineup, but this was the one that really got me.

Oh, btw, the Vodafone exclusive units come in Ice White, Black and Copper, while the debranded ones (called the z800) only have Aluminum covers (not as cool as they sound). You can get any of these units on eBay, unlock using PC software and special unlock cable, and then program to work on your US GSM network (mine is Cingular).