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Pantech Link if you're only going for texting, talking & camera. The camera is okay, but your hand needs to be steady, and so does what you're taking a picture of, since there's no flash. Texting is amazing on the full qwerty keyboard, and if you're typing a really long paragraph, it splits up the texts for you, and you can type up to 1,500 characters (~10 texts split up). It also has the conversation texting, where it shows the whole conversation for each person, instead of having to open each individual text. Only thing is it has a small memory for texts, so you'll have to delete texts after maybe ~200ish. Talking is good, too, speaker phone is nice and loud, and you can record the conversation if you'd like. You can also multitask while talking to a person (if someone sends you a text, you can reply while still carrying on the phone call; it's pretty cool).

Hope I helped, and good luck choosing a phone! :)

the samsung mythic is a good phone but i don't think a 15 year old guy would like it because it has screen savers and backgrounds when you lock your phone and they are really girly and theres no way to change them. Also there is alot of features that require a data plan so there is really no use in the phone unless you get the plan. since you want something for texting and talking and a decent camera i think the link will do just fine, although the mythic has an amazing camera with flash its not worth it to get the phone. hope this helps, good luck (: