What phone?

[dest]

New battery off ebay for a fiver.
Get upgrade, sell on ebay, pocket the money

[alg]

If you are staying with Nokia then stay with the N95. If not move to iphone or blackberry.

[GazzaG60]

depends what you want i suppose

i have 2 phones my personal phone is a small sony simple thing. work wise its WM6. currently on a sony xperia x1. its a nice phone. had htc tytn 1 and tytn2 prior. they function better but you carry a bigger device. its the usual compromise

i phone has some nice apps but not for me.

[mouse]

New battery off ebay for a fiver.
Get upgrade, sell on ebay, pocket the money

A lot of the cheap ebay batteries are no where near as good those made by the phone manufacturer, and if the're really cheap and claim to be genuine they're probably counterfeit.

I knew a guy wo bought a new cheap ebay one that was as bad as his 2 year old original battery and needed a charge every day or two.

[Rusty]

Cheers for the comments, iPhone isn't an option at the mo on contract so I'll need to have a look around or switch... HTC Magic looks quite good, newer version of the G1 Greg mentioned, had a play with one earlier while waiting 30 mins not to be served in the Vodafone store in Bristol. Pointless waste of time

Other options are the N97, Sony Erikson W995, Samsung Jet (although that too seems to suffer as per the N97 with a few gremlins), Nokia E71, Blackberry Bold . Not sure whether to stick with a phone and let touch screen tech get a bit more robust, go for a keyboard phone or take the touch screen plunge...

Decisions decisions...

[GazzaG60]

had touch since the first htc tytn. works great on htc. sony touch is good with the lastest firmware.

[terrybullwon]

I have had 4 nokia N95 8GB in the last year and a half and am now on my 2nd N96 16GB

All have failed on me, I am what some people call a phone slayer

[KaraK]

if the N97 appeals then hang on a couple of months - they are releasing the N97 Mini soon, its slightly smaller and they have apparantly significantly upgraded the software

[Rusty]

Good call, I can wait, got a battery today for the ailing N95 8GB. Think I'll wait a month or two and see what happens.

[Mark Halligan]

Depends on what you want from your 'phone'.

I've been a nokia fan for a long time, but just recently some of their 'smartphones' have been hamstrung by buggy initial release firmware and insufficient RAM for effective multitasking (something the iphone does not do).

For a while I have been an Internet Tablet user and own Nokia N800 and N810, these are not phones, and both run on a linux type OS called Maemo. For me these are great devices when tethered to a phone when I am away from a wifi source.

These Nokia tablets have now evolved into the soon to be released N900 which is basically a pocket pc/tablet with a phone application built into it, again running on the Maemo OS as opposed to symbian.

Probably not for everyone, but definately promising to be the next ultimate convergence device, and will be my next purchase, details here http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/

I hope it turns out be be as good as it looks.