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Last month I bought a new phone. I had only had my old one (a Motorola E1000) for a short while, but it just annoyed me too much. It rebooted at random times, it was slow, and the sound quality was so bad that people could never hear what I was saying. Oh, and when I connected it to the charger, it wouldn't notice about 75% of the time. Reconnecting would fix it sometimes, but still.. charging is quite a basic function of a phone (and UMTS phones suck more power than non-UMTS ones).

My new phone is a Nokia 6021. It doesn't speak UMTS ('3G'), but I didn't really use that anyway. It also doesn't have a camera—the old one had two—and I haven't missed it yet. Basically, it's just a phone (OK, the calendar is nice too) with a Bluetooth option, so I can use it as a GPRS modem. Now all I need to do is convince Vodafone to allow me to switch to a cheaper plan.