OT: New cellphone needed... recomendations?

[dogscoff]

I'm a big fan of the Moto VXXX series myself. Easy to use, powerful, lots of features and they're clamshell which keeps your screen safe and clean.

My current phone is a Moto v980. Battery life is short, and it can be a little twitchy, but by and large I like it. You can put mem cards in it, take video (I never thought I'd use it, but I use the vid camera way more than I ever use the still camera) and upload java and mp3s (free ringtones! Huzzah!) no probs. Oh, it's 3G as well which is great for browsing the web. Kinda brutish to look at though, especially after my ultra-sexy little v300 (which i also recommend very highly).

Don't know how you'd go about reading your ebooks... if they were online you could look them up there easily, but I don't know how you could store them locally for viewing on the phone.I have to say I don't know of any phones that offer such a facility (apart from phone/ palmtop hybrids, which are v. expensive.)

Used to have an ericsson, which was bloody great, and a samsung, which wasn't.