   Mobile Phone recommendations.
  Where else to ask but here...Anyways, got myself a D500 on contract a few months ago - its broke, screens gone, 'apparently' this is normal for those. I've already spent £70 getting it repaired once and I don't plan on doing it again. Anyone got any recommendations on mobile phones? Something that ain't gonna die on me like this one has (4 months is not a reasonable life span for a phone). Not too bothered about all the fancy features, theyll never really get used. I wouldn't mind going back to a nokia 3330 to be perfectly honest, one of those lasted me 3 years and it was in pieces!   
  ask your service provider if they have some sort of phone insurance plan.  i know that sprint does it over here in the US.  i can't remember the price, but its about the same as you paid just for repairs IIRC. as for recommendationsi use a moto v180 personally, and it works just fine.  nokias last a fair amount of time too (my dad murders his phones, and he has had one for over a year.  none of the buttons work except the pickup/hangup buttons, but it takes calls & returns missed calls :D in the end, its more of how you treat the phone rather than which phone it is (though there are exceptions).   ;  I only like Nokia phones, I've kept my excellent 6230 after a year and sold my upgrade, my wife really likes the 3230 which is pretty hi-tech and definitely moving towards the PDA.   ;Quote:Original post by d000hgI only like Nokia phones, I've kept my excellent 6230...I'm likewise still with my 6230 (the 6230i is not as good - they fixed the joystick problem  and the camera/screen are higher res, but it's horribly, horribly slow.I've avoided Sony like the plague (given the appalling build quality of all their other stuff). Again, I've (accidentally) put my phone through a lot of abuse, still working as good as new. [grin]   ;  Stay as far away from the Nokia 3120 as humanly possible.  I am on my 3rd one in less than a year and it is a certifiable piece of crap.  Sometimes it just decides that it doesn't want to make or receive phone calls, but it looks like it is working (the reception indicator tells you that it is at or close to full service reception) and you don't know this until someone tracks you down on a different phone number and tells you that they have been trying to call you for 3 days.  At first I thought it was a defective phone so I had the company replace it...no...it is just the model. I even took it back in to the store and explained the problem and the clerk said (I am not kidding) "Oh yeah...it does that.  You just have to take out the battery and put it back in."So, if you actually plan on using the phone for something other than a paperweight, buy something other than the Nokia 3120.   ;  If all you're after is *just* a phone, I've been happy with the Nokia 1100.Cheap as hell, solid feeling, simple to use.   