(and probably with the same dumb phone I've had for the last 7 years, too)
Yeah, I resisted the upgrade for a long time myself.
The new housemate and the new girlfriend(2 different people) both quickly talked me into it, so they could text me.
I had texting disabled on my last phone because I didn't want to have to pay the extra $5 a month for however many texts, and before that, my friends would text me and each text cost 20 cents, to send OR receive, if it's not part of your plan.
I just checked my bill and in one week, on my old non-text plan, I would have already racked up about $60 worth of texts.
Ahh...the freedom of UNLIMITED talk & text.
Plus...this phone does all kinds of cool stuff that my old dumb phone can't even touch.