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I have read that with a certain Motorola accessory cable (purchased separately and not yet widely available), the C975 will have a direct USB connection to a computer. Very convenient - especially for phone/PC synchronization. But you can get an indirect USB connection to a computer by taking the transflash memory card (also sold separately) out of the C975, and plugging it into a USB adapter which comes with the transflash card. For enough space to store a sufficient number of mp3's or anything else, you will need to buy the transflash memory card! I have a 32Mb card at the moment because it was cheap, but I have heard they can go up to 256Mb in size. To swap content in and out of the phone to your computer (Windows XP is probably required) you take the transflash card out of the phone (remove the battery, and then the transflash card) and plug it into a card reader that came with the transflash kit. This plugs into the computer with a USB socket. After doing it twice or three times, it is easy to do it in less than 30 seconds. A minute or so after plugging the USB card reader into the computer, it should appear as an extra drive on the computer and then you can copy videos and photos you recorded on the phone to your computer, and also copy mp3's etc, from the computer to the phone. On my phone the translash card has a main directory called "mobile" with subdirectories called "audio", "picture" and "video". Just copy the mp3 files from your computer into the "audio" directory and they should playback on the phone. You can also set an mp3 file to be a ringtone as well. But Motorola recommends a length of less than 30 seconds for an mp3 to be used as a ringtone. However, do not expect a very loud signal to come out of the headphones. For that you may need some kind of amplifier built into the headphones. I find it almost adequate however. In a busy shopping mall it is harder to hear above the din. You may want to get the E1000 which is a classier more expensive version of this phone - it MAY have better sound, check your phone shops. If you have the capability to make your own mp3's, I would recommend using a low bitrate of around 56kbit/sec, because the phone sound ain't exactly hifi. You won't notice the difference. You will get a lot more mp3's on there. With a 32Mb transflash you should get around 70 - 80 minutes (one CD's worth) of mp3's at 56kbits/sec. With a 128Mb card you can get around 5 hours worth. And amazingly - with the 128Mb card, you could also fit around 4 hours of the video that the phone can record - it's small - lousy quality video, but pretty useful to have anyway. It's great to be able to have any video at all!

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