An  affordable messaging phones seems being favorite in today economic crisis. Now, you can get an  affordable messaging phones as AT&T is offering the Samsung a177  a prepaid texter for $79.99.  The new AT&T gophone of course will be packed in a full QWERTY keyboard for conveniently texting message. The A177 is decidedly low-end, with only EDGE, probably a VGA camera, and not much else.
For a budget phone, you have to admit that it does look rather nice.
