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Phone contract has expired so I have a few alternatives to consider:

1. keep Nokia 6610i, change to pay-as-you-go, save £16 a month - calls
2. keep Nokia, stick on 25 mins/month for £16
3. Change to Vodafone, get Sony Ericsson K750i with 2M Pixel camera, MP3 player, bluetooth, you name it for £20 a month, 125 minutes, 250 texts, evening/weekend calls 1hr for price of 3 minutes. This is an internet deal, beats anything I could get on the highstreet
4. Try to wangle Blackberry 7100. This has a better keyboard for text entry.

While waiting for Wife to shop yesterday I decided that what I want most from new phone is note-taking/blogging features. The K750i has a regular keyboard so typing likely to be slow, even with predictive text. The Blackberry has more keys and two letters per key so it's predictions are likely to be better. My nokia doesn't learn from it's mistakes, every time I type "I'm home" it takes it as "I'm good" which while true is not my intended message so I have to press the button to correct it. Wife's Motoroal V547 (which is off for repair again, three failed repair attempts O2 will replace it) would learn the preference for 'home' over 'good'.

Then again, the K750i has a very good camera (for a phone) and the Blackberry doesn't have one. K750i plays MP3's but I'm not sure I'd ever listen to them.

I'm leaning towards K750i, on the hope that the predictive text is a bit better than the nokia and that I can always write in a markup language and have a script at the server end expand the markup.

I'll do some more K750i research.

BTW, I'd rather have the SE W800i, the 'Walkman Phone' which is similar to the K750i but more refined as a music player. These have only just come out, are much sought after, are more expensive and bright orange.

Update: ordered K750i. Too good a deal.

Got Motorola V547 back from 'repair' but it still keeps disconnecting during calls or fails to dial with a 'call failure'. As the problem is intermittent there is little hope in convincing O2 or their repairers that the phone has a problem so we have given up and she has gone back to a Nokia 6610. No camera!

The v547 isn't totally useless: it still reminds her to take her pill every day.

Wife's Motorola V547 has been sent off for repair. It keeps giving 'call failures' or dropping calls. They tried resetting something in firmware at the O2 shop but this didn't fix the problem. Should take a week or two for them to fix it, which isn't bad as we have an old phone to put the SIM in.

My contract expires next month. The Samsung D500 is tempting me:

• MP3 player
• 88M memory (not great but ok for an hour or two's music)
• bluetooth (hate to think how long it would take to transfer 88M over bluetooth at 100kbps or so).
• 1M pixel camera with flash
• not a boring Nokia.