Look at the rack of batteries in any cellphone store.....answers your own
question.  Do they fit in the old pouches?...no.  Do the 6 batteries you
paid $80 apiece for to get the big capacity fit?...no.  Will the new phone
drop in your old $150 quickcharger....no.

There seems to be a new trick, now....CHANGE COMPANIES ENTIRELY....We'll
sell LG this period, Audiovox next, Moto another....

Ok, that's potentially helpful.  I'm wondering if the verizon mobile office
kit I have for v60p/s will work.  Or at least the cables if not the
software.  I'm not versed in how the drivers do what they do to communicate
with the phone.

Rebecca

The data cable will work fine. If the MobileOffice software itself
doesn't work out-of-box, a driver update online will fix that. (All the
mot phone's using the CE-Bus connector use very similar software - ie.
v60, v710, t720, and even most GSM phones from other providers will
communicate with a computer using the same data cable and softwre.)

With that said, all accessories that plug into the CE-bus connector on
the bottom (chargers, FM radio headsets, etc) should work fine on any
CE-bus based handset. Worst comes to worst, a device won't work, but
nothing should be fried because Mot designed that port knowing it would
be put on many phones and devices shouldn't accidentally fry themselves
if connected to a phone with incompatible software.

Non-specialized headsets all hook to the 2.5mm jack on top, and every
older mot headset should work on newer mot phones. The v710 and newer
ones also have an enhanced 2.5mm jack that lets you plug specialized
stereo headphone headsets in (with a fourth connector on the 2.5mm tip)
for listening to mp3s off the TransFlash slot.

As Larry said, the batteries are different in almost every model phone.

The v265 and lower models aren't worth the money IMO. Tiny washed out
passive matrix color screens. It's like having to look at words in a
bucket of muddy water. Now that mot has worked out the kinks in their
new handset OS however from the t720 fiasco, all of their handsets work
MUCH better at reception, so any of the lot would probably work fine.)

Unless you travel to Europe very often, you are probably not going to
need the a840. It's only benefit is that it can do GSM 900/1800
(europe/asia/etc.) and it does so by removing Bluetooth.

The Bluetooth enabled handsets are very nice to use, especially in
conjunction with a good headset and their Motospeak voice dialing. I've
taken my entire cell phone setup in my car (without need for 500 docks
and wires) down to just the headset on my ear. I can make calls to
anyone in my phonebook with the push of a button, and anybody not in my
phonebook - still can go "digit dial" and say the phone number to the
phone and it will call that way too. Very convenient.

I use a v710 myself (using accessories from a v551, v60p, v60i, and
Nextel all interchangably with no problem) and I take quite good care of
my handsets and have yet to have any problems with the keypad.

Skuzz