Also, the Passion is rumored to have a 3.8″ screen.

@linkedit
This phone was not designed with top-of-the-line specs in mind. It's aimed towards a different demographic than phones like the Droid, iPhone, Passion, etc… Hence the $99 price tag. It typically takes about 2 years for a new chipset to be made small enough and with enough cost efficiency to be main streamed into phones. We're finally starting to hit the mark where Snapdragons and OMAP3430 processors will start popping up in more and more phones. The way manufacturers are putting out phones at the moment, it seems like they're going to continue with the qualcomm arm-11 based processors to use for the low-end market, and put the “next-gen” processors in the big boys. We aren't going to see the arm-11 based processors phased completely out of the market yet just because their successors are here. The phone isn't bad just because it's not marketed towards your “needs and expectations”. Someone else will buy this phone and give it the love and attention it deserves!