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I have had very good luck with the older model Nokia E61. I can search and select for WiFi or GPRS (and other access protocols) seamlessly: the full keyboard is great, the screen is just about the right size for a phone and I have dropped it countless times and it has never broke. I am typing on it now in a coffee shop. I think you can buy used E61s quite cheap. I may get another one!

This is one thing that the whole world is admiring Nokia about.

This is from my experience.

I dropped my Nokia phone in water ( rain water storage ) which is atleast 2 feets depth unknowingly. Then I asked my friend to give call to my mobile continuously after half an hour 'search' I was able to spot it out. My goodness it was still ringing.

Disassembled it, dried it in sunlight and in another 15 minutes started working again. Wow ! Wow !

I was surprised and astonished like anything and I was praising the whole Nokia team like anything ...

Nothing off topic or anything .. just wanted to share this ...

Yesterday I installed PuTTY on my Nokia E61 and was running top on my phone. It was really cool. Then I ran some MySQL tuning scripts to see how the database was doing.

It is comforting to know that I could do an emergency reboot from just about anywhere in the world.

Basic command line tasks worked just fine over GPRS.

Interesting.

I did once thought about getting a smartphone some months ago. I was neither thinking about working nor surfing on the road. Rather, I have bought some ebooks (PDF) in the past that I appreciate a handy reader so that I can read on the road. However, even the model with the largest screen (3.8" is the largest I know of - a bit larger than iphone 3G) still would not allow optimal viewing of conventional A4-sized PDF pages, and so did not justify the ~USD$900 price tag for me. So I dropped the idea.

Probably a netbook is more suitable for me. My laptop is simply too big to carry everywhere. Except missing cellular phone functionality, I think netbook is more "malleable" especially when WIFI and GPRS modules are now builtin in newer models.

I also need to read books and documents in digital format,
so I think I'll buy a BeBook. In any case there are many other e-book devices.

well, i have dropped my Sony Ericsson Z550i countless times in the last three years, once from third floor in my office - it came tumbling down to ground floor. it was switched off in the process, and started working when i switched it on

i guess if your cellphone has a metal casing and is a sturdy model, it has better chances of surving free falls etc.

edit: pardon me for the off topic post, and let's not start a nokia vs sony ericsson war

ROTFL,

Now I know why none of you use your mobile to access the Internet on a regular basis, your phones all have such tiny screens!

BTW, Opera Mini is very fast on mobiles, but you do need "smartphone brick" screen to enjoy it (edit: ... and a full keyboard, LOL)

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