cost dosnt have anything to do with who makes a better phone thats just stereotyping by prices, ive heard the same story when it comes to pcs and laptops for example my last customer was willing to spend $1200 for a sony laptop and when i asked him why he said beacause sony is the best and i asked him what makes him think that he says beacause they are the most expensive lol i looked at him and said you relise sony dosnt make their own mother boards ,cpu,ram basically they buy all their parts from the same places dell,hp,emachine.toshiba buy their parts from all they do is stamp their brand on their product and make you believe your buying the best of the best.......same principle here what are we really comparing? cpu? what snapdragon processor vs the humming bird cpu? or is it the android operation system? the 2.3.4 gingerbread to the froyo? in the end of the day each one of us will have a reason why our phone might be better than the next in my case it wasnt the cpu nor the os it was simply the screen the hdmi output the led camera and the 720 p recording resolution and the battery life. other than that i cant say that the Lg esteem is better than the indulge or the attain nor will i say vice versal. And oh when the indulge came out i paid $400 and when the lg esteem i paid $400 metro dosnt seem to think one is worth more than the other lol.