It always depends on what you want from your phone. The Samsung Impression is an excellent phone. You get the best of the keypad and the touchscreen. For the price, you get a rather nice size screen. The only drawback that I can think of is that the one jack it has is used for charging, the headphone, and USB connection. So when my phone is charging, I cannot use the headset.
I am sure you will have fun with it. It has a nice look to it. Though you do not have a variety of colors to choose from, the one color is practical. There are not to many add-on products, and there are no leather cases made for it. The only one I could find for it was at Walmart. It has a pretty nice media/music player on it. I got mine with a 4GB media card which is a pretty nice expansion. In my opinion, you cannot go wrong with the Impression.