I forced my mom into buying a Sanyo 8100 awhile ago. She had one of those 3 year old black nokia things which surprisingly don't look too much different from Nokias designs today. As for special features... the camera is just a novelty item, u can play games, surf the web sorta, or even make/recieve phone calls once in awhile. Other then that I don't really know what else you want your phone to do.