"the one true smartphone (for you) has to be out there somewhere..."
Call me a Luddite, but I don't *want* a 'smartphone'. I want a basic, easy-to-use reliable and above-all robust phone that makes/receives calls and texts. I don't want it to play music or watch videos (I've got proper dedicated hardware for that). In many places I can't carry a phone which has a camera (Official Secrets Act.)If I *want* to take pictures then Mr. Canon offers a range of rather fine DSLRs. Browse the Web? IBM's Thinkpad and a piece of Ethernet works rather more reliably than WiFi/3G-type stuff.
Sorry, but the whole idea of smartphone-as-jack-of-all-trades is something which just doesn't work mentally for me. My current phone is a Nokia that's at least five years old (I got it secondhand). It is a purpose-designed tool that makes and receives calls, sends/receives texts. It does these things extremely well (when I am within range of a base-station: my house works rather like a Faraday cage) and to be honest I don't think a 'smartphone' would make/receive calls any better.
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Call me a Luddite, but I don't *want* a 'smartphone'. I want a basic, easy-to-use reliable and above-all robust phone that makes/receives calls and texts. I don't want it to play music or watch videos (I've got proper dedicated hardware for that). In many places I can't carry a phone which has a camera (Official Secrets Act.)If I *want* to take pictures then Mr. Canon offers a range of rather fine DSLRs. Browse the Web? IBM's Thinkpad and a piece of Ethernet works rather more reliably than WiFi/3G-type stuff.
Sorry, but the whole idea of smartphone-as-jack-of-all-trades is something which just doesn't work mentally for me. My current phone is a Nokia that's at least five years old (I got it secondhand). It is a purpose-designed tool that makes and receives calls, sends/receives texts. It does these things extremely well (when I am within range of a base-station: my house works rather like a Faraday cage) and to be honest I don't think a 'smartphone' would make/receive calls any better.