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Currently I have a Motorola Razr. I hate it. But it was free. My old (and much loved) Nokia was just being too much of a pain: the battery wouldn't hold a charge, and getting hold of a new battery for it was proving difficult. So, given i was always difficult to get hold of, a friend of mine gave me her old phone (she was upgrading).
I hate that its menu systems are counter intuitive (options always seem to be reversed to me. So, the delete option appears on the left instead of the right.) I hate that its keys are fiddly. I don't like all those buttons on its side. It has a camera I neither need nor use. *shrugs* But it was given freely and it takes and makes calls and messages.
By choice I'd go for another Nokia. My last one looked not dissimilar to Monnie's phone in the picture she posted. The great thing about Nokias, at least the old ones, I know very little bout the newer shinier models, was that they were built to last and last. The one I had prior to my last one got run over by a car and still worked, other than having no screen. Couldn't send or read messages on it, but could still use it for phone calls. Used that phone for months after its car accident.
I like gadgets. I love my i-pod. I love my laptop and my swanky new superslim digi camera. But I like my phones simple. I don;t need it to play music, or to be able to take beautiful pictures. I just need it to take and receive calls and messages and have an alarm and calendar function. That's it. The only other attribute i need in a phone is for it to be sturdy and able to handle ill-treatment without having a screaming hissy fit and refusing to work.
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