I used to be a fan of Nokia until I bought this bloody E50 business phone of theirs. It was a real lemon (very slow interface, and shitty battery life). Their flip phones don't look very promising either. I have reverted back to my old 3120b, and while not having many features, it still works like a champ (on the original battery too).

I've had cellphones from just about every brand under the sun, and I think they're all pretty much shit. The few good ones I had were the ones that came free with my plan. All you can really do is choose from the lesser of the evils.

I like the simple ones that 1) do the phone duty and 2) can at least handle the txt messages that the masses love beyond all reason. 😁

You see I used to have a spiffy Linux-based PDA called a Zaurus. That thing was really neat. I had Doom running on it with software wavetable music in 2002. ScummVM too. You could cross compile anything you wanted to it. A group built a great custom distro for it. It had a nice big LCD. It had a little keyboard built-in (WASD!) and a CF slot that could run network cards. It was my MP3/OGG player for awhile and it could play SD res videos. Eventually I realized that it was too tiny to be really useful for computing tasks, although it was an awesome gadget. It also was somewhat unstable, like most "smart" phones.

Thus, rather breakable, expensive "phones" with tiny screens, proprietary software and lots of limitations, and huge monthly fees, are not-so-thrilling for me. The only cell phones that seem to work really well as phones are the basic ones.