Question: “Dumped my Treo 750v, What Nokia should I get?”

Got this in from Steve at iTAGG. If you’ve got the time, perhaps you could help him with some suggestions?

Dear mobile blogging world…..Ok that’s it.  I am just fed up with my Palm Treo 750.  Frankly I just find it tedious, dull, monotonous, boring.  Mainly because of the Microsoft operating system.  So I need advice on which Nokia to go back to (oh sigh…I soooooo miss you Nokia; I am so sorry I left you, please take me back…).
 
There is simply no logic to how the Treo takes and scrambles names you add to the address book in order to let you search on them later.  And each entry can only have “W” or ”M” phone numbers, rather than letting me add new fields with fancy names like “ewans mobile at weekends”.  After making a call to a new number the logic that decides whether you will be allowed to add it as a new contact or update an existing one in your address book is like entering the lottery.  And as for foreign numbers that come in without the leading +XX country code…well I’ve already said how the programmer on that bit of code just be covered in fish oil and fed to the penguins.
 
…And as for synching the address book with my Outlook Express address book – well this is like closing your eyes and jumping off a ledge…will the fall be 2 feet or 60 feet…it is different every time!!!  I have lost sooooooo many contacts now it is very scary.
 
And as for creating texts, saving them to archive folders, doing basic texting stuff…well honestly, it is easier to jump naked into a bath of baked beans and then try and get past the doorman at White’s than use Microsoft’s bug ridden attempt at a texting application.
 
Will I miss the full qwerty keyboard?  Maybe.  Going back to 4 letters per key will be odd at first but to be honest, I have fat homer simpson fingers so have never really managed to master the teeny weeny little keys on this and probably spend as much time deleting mistakes as I would using the old 4 chars per key system.
 
Oh and the camera gets 1 out of 10 for effort.  Always out of focus, a blue tint to images…just very poor optics in general.
 
And yes, as per Ewan’s rant last week, I am one of those who cannot find how to turn certain key click sounds off on it, there simply isn’t an option.  Just like there is no on/off switch to the whole phone – I have to take the battery out once every 4 days to reboot it due to bugs that freeze it.
 
So in summary…I miss my Nokia’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
So what is cool and hot and above all else usable when it comes to the basic but to me hughly important features of an address book and texting system that simply works?  Frankly I am not a big user of mobile email or IM any more so really just want to revert back to a cave-phone that simply does what it says on the tin.
 
Or maybe you can convince me to take one of those gold LG phones…they look good!!!  NO STOP IT STEVE, you are doing it again – go for function over form
 
Any thoughts mate?

Well, I think you might take a look at the Nokia E61, Steve — although I am well up for the ‘i’ version that comes with a camera. That’s been pretty good for me.

Or, perhaps you might like the Nokia E65? Taken a look? Or maybe you could be tempted by the daddy — the N95?

If I can get the LG Shine back from Ilana, who’s absolutely loving it, then maybe you could have a go with that one. Does anyone have some suggestions for Steve?