What phone should I get?

[ciphergoth]

I need a new phone. I'm almost totally at a loss about what I want. I don't know whether I should get a smartphone, or whether the browser/diary/etc facilities of a normal phone are enough. Any ideas?

Rules (updated):

• 3G, Bluetooth
• No Microsoft
• Must work in San Francisco

Update: Currently tempted by the Sony M600i...

Comments

[pengshui-master.livejournal.com]

I'm reasonably happy with the N70, the goods bits are having putty and python diretcly on the phone. ALhtough I;ve not used python in anger yet.
(I have no idea wether it will work in SF).


Using putty is ok even with the text keyboard but I'd much rather have a bluetooth keyboard or <a href="http://www.cykey.co.uk>cykey</a>. The n73 is out now with a better display which might improve the readability under putty which could be better. Also good is the fact the default shell - phone app works pretty much like an ordianry phone which is in contrast to many other smartphones I've seem. Worst part of it is that despite pretty open in in standards support I haven't managed to back my contacts back to my debian desktop yet. Oh and the battery life could be a little better I get about 3 days of usage between charges.

[meta.ath0.com (from livejournal.com)]

The N70 should work in SF, but you'll get poor coverage because it's only tri-band and Cingular's new coverage is GSM850.