Hello fellow Geekzoners, I love checking in every now and then to this forum, have been for a long time now and always love it.
Background:
Now being a Dinosaur that I am, I am after a new phone, I have used for many years a Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, I absolutely loved the phone for what it was, solid, reliable, simple, Large Battery Life and a really good music playback capability that I have used with headsets when hiking and running or other sports. It had been my work horse, but its a phone not without its flaws, average camera and slow interface, messages stored not very well. One of the reasons I upgraded a year or so ago to a Nokia N8.. I know I know.."Upgraded" ha.. I got it for a few dollars really and have tried the n9 which I didn't like as I wasn't ready to go fully to a "new age" phone, and the N8 had a really nice camera and music player I also liked the Free GPS! So I kept using the n8 a lot till a few days ago when it broke. The Digitizer has died for the second time and I wont replace it this time. What a paint it was without any buttons as the thing would not respond, even The USB port was also going bad but I with the help of a USB Mouse and adapter on the port managed to operate the n8 and save all my messages and contacts and then my music and stuff and gone back to using my indestructible 5800. Which after so long and having been through water damaged (submerged in water!) still works GREAT! (but only 20 sent messages can be stored at the archive for whatever reason)...
What I want: Now coming from the Nokia 5800 and N8 I am a man after the simpler luxuries in a phone, I dont use it for Youtube or Play Games really.
I need it to have long battery life, imagine outdoors man, frequent mover. (My N8 wont last a day even if left on standby with a new battery!)While the 5800 went on for a week without a charge and with some use!
I need it to be Solid & Reliable. Something that has a Rigged build akin to the 5800 and known to go through.
I want it to have a camera as good as the n8 or better (which I guess most phones do today).
I want it to have a good music play back capability.
Should work in Europe or anywhere in the world really.
TXT, Calls as usual, and a GPS(Free) would be really nice.
I will probably prefer something thats been out on the market for a year or more, likely pick one up in used condition off trademe! have looked at the M8 and the reviewes said its got horrible battery and other things, Not sure if I would want a iphone tho and the windows phones also look weird.. :o
THANK YOU for taking your time to read my long post, Please help me!