I've had a
Sony Ericsson T100 for about a year and a half now and it's been lovely. I use it to call people and people use it to call me. That's it. I do not want a cameraphone. I do not want a PDA. I just want a phone that is mobile.
However, I also want a quality phone, not some lightweight piece of garbage. My T100 is on its last legs, so I tried a
T230 a few weeks ago; felt like a cheap piece of plastic toy. My T100 is solid, weighty, no press-on cover crap. The
AU InfoBar (the white one) would be ideal, but, alas it is only available in Japan and thus does not accept SIM cards.
Please, anyone who knows of a quality handset that has an interface and build like that of the T100, only more "professional" looking if possible, post about it here. I don't have (or want) a contract, and price isn't too much of an issue; I just want to buy the handset and stick my SIM card in it and all will be well. And if it must be polyphonic, then it must have Bluetooth too, that I might send a simple MIDI file to it, to use in place of all those hideous ringtones. Even better would be monophonic and no Bluetooth, but that's probably impossible...
I like Sony Ericsson's interface on the T100 but not how it is on their modern phones (T68 onwards), with the "contextual" buttons beneath the screen. I hate this. I want a yes and a no and a couple of arrow keys and that's it.
And though I love my T100, I do not want to get another because it does have its shortcomings; sometimes slow menu response, slightly tacky styling, weird rubber sides.
Failing any replies, I'll probably just get a
T28. But I'd rather not go
that far back in time...