Thanks, thereisnosuchthingasafreelunch. There is also no such thing as a free phone! When you write quad, is the fourth 850 or 3G then? Nokia does at least one tri+3G, the 6630, but I think it has not been released in the US yet. But since I have no use of 3G for now, I'll stick to my triband 6310i. With that I have had success in the US, even years back when the phone was all new.
I was more thinking of countries I haven't been to yet, when they could be imagined to go straight from nothing to 3G, but I haven't found any yet.
So I'll stick to my triband for now ...