Siemens M35
Same as the C35 but in a spalsh proof/dust proof/shock resistant case:
This phone didnt actually last that long, the battery keeled over and even a replacement battery after that didnt really do much for it.
Next (and I can't believe I've remembered this) was a Samsung X600. This was an awesome phone, with its swivelling camera and LED ring flash. You could also make the button in the middle flash all kinds of colours.
I'm pretty sure there were other phones inbetween and after those two but to be honest I can't remember at all. The next phone I got was my first contract phone. The sony K800i. This was a bloody good phone, great screen, digital FM radio, Awesome 3.2MP camera and really long battery life. It was just a nice phone, never had any problems with it.
Then I switched from Orange to O2 and decided to get a new phone. I lent this one to my brother who promptly broke it by charging it with the wrong charger and for my troubles I got to chose between 2 phones from O2: The Nokia 6500 or 6500 Slide. I went with the Slide
Why oh why did I feel the need to swap from the sony? I think I actually took a downgrade (well I did go from ?35pm to ?20pm)! Anyway this Nokia was my first Nokia and now my last Nokia. What a pile of shit this phone was. The OS looked old and clunky and in operation it was exactly that.... clunky. The screen was worse than the sony, the camera was shockingly bad, the media capabilities were worse, build quality was pretty awful (ill fitting panels, scrapes up the keyboard from the slider)... the only things that were good were the battery (for a while) and the call quality. Eventually this phone started doing wierd things, the memory card would mount and dismount (in the OS) over and over again 100's of times a day and this would fuck everything up. It made the phone slow to respond, made cycling through menus horrible and for some reason it would stop the phone linking names to phone numbers so when I went to view messages I had little idea who was who as it was all just a pile of +44 numbers.
So I had to remove the memory card, which fixed the stuttering but didnt fix the forgetting names problem.
The next phone doesnt count really as I got it for nothing. My brother chose this phone as an upgrade, but It never got mailed to him. After 3 further requests for the company to mail him his phone he eventually found out that the guy in the post room downstairs (living in university halls) had actually recieved them, but never bothered to tell anyone. So he had three Nokia 5800 Xpress Musics from Orange!!! He thought he could sell them and gave one to me, but Orange had, assuming they'd be stolen, black listed the phones IMEI number so they wouldnt work.
So I never got to use it as a phone, but I did use it as a means to watch Iplayer in bed. The build Quality was a bit naff and the plastic, resistive touch screen was clumsy. Again the OS was just awful when you considered all the Samsung, LG and Iphone OS's of the time. My girl friend had this phone for a while as well, an unwanted upgrade from her dads phone contract. The phone was replaced at least twice because of the screens whacking out completely, making the phone unusable. Same thing happened to my brothers. On the whole my family and friends experience of nokia phones has been dismal.
Next up... possibly the best device I have ever purchased. Genuinely amazing and useful bit of kit. It is of course the iPhone 3GS
Never have I owned such a good device. Its got its problems like naff battery life, iffy call quality, but as a tool its amazing. Emails any where any time, my music any time, the web, youtube, games, videos, information, tools like calculators, converters, reference, documents, maps, gps, flickr, youtube, iplayer etc etc ... all at the finger tips (providing you have 3G or WiFi... damn you O2!!!). It and the phones and OS's its now spawned (Android, WebOS etc) surely have to be one of the best inventions in the mobile phone arena ever. I could live without the other phones, I could live without the Smart phone... but I'd rather not.
iPhone 4 next for me, though I am second guessing it because I am a bit bored of iOS.