Inflation is perhaps the generic feature of phantom field, not the big-rip

A class of solutions for phantom field corresponding to a generalized k-essence Lagrangian has been presented, employing a simple method which provides the scope to explore many such. All the solutions having dynamical state parameter are found to touch the magic line w = -1 asymptotically. The solutions with constant equation of state can represent phantom, quitessence or an ordinary scalar field cosmologies depending on the choice of a couple of parameters of the theory. For w approximate to -1, quintessence and phantom models are indistinguishable through the Hubble parameter. Finally, it appears that inflation rather than big-rip is the generic feature of phantom cosmology.