its priced accordingly to what it does. It has a great name behind it with a great warranty/care package. Its a decent phone, easy to use,has the internet, push email and the ipod. thats more than they need. the avg user doesn't care about all the retarded reasons floating around the OT hate bandwagon.
theres well over 50 million razrs out there, and that debuted at 599 with 2 year. and doesn't nothing really, just a new form factor.