Yeah, Phillips did. They sold like rocks. Phillip then dropped the line. Of course, it wasn't just the battery thing that killed the phone. It just sucked in general. The need for AA's kinda drove the last nail in an early casket. It almost makes you wonder if someone didn't challenge them to make such a phone with AA battery support, and then purposely made it suck so as to kill any future arguments about having a cell phone with AA batteries. I say that because I've seen companies do that before. They have something a lot of people cry for, but they don't want to do it for whatever reason, so they produce the worst possible product that they know won't sell, and then when it bombs, they say "See? We told you nobody wanted it, so stop your bellyaching and buy our regular stuff. You'll like it better." and that's the end of it. Product dies, company gets their way, and the customer gets screwed.