I bought one of these back in December after the HTC Merge never released. I wanted a high-end Droid with a keyboard, and when I saw this thing listed at the same price as a plain Droid 2 ($149), I picked it up. For the same price, I got the dock and ear buds included – and for resale value, it should be better than the regular Droid 2; geeky or not, it’s still a special edition phone. I couldn’t see spending the extra $50 on a D2G for a very slightly better and global functionality I wouldn’t use.

Personally, I don’t care what my phone looks like so I left it alone (also for resale value), but you don’t even have to buy a case if you don’t like the R2 stuff – you can just replace the battery cover and cover panel above it with D2G white stuff (cheaper than a case), and you can hardly tell it from a white D2G. I find the white nicer looking on these phones than the ugly blue anyway – don’t know why they didn’t just stick with the black like the OG Droid.