Wayne Stallwood wrote:
The trick with Nokia's is to get something from the E (business) range and avoid the N (consumer) range. As they tend to be more robust (both in terms of software and hardware).
I make extensive use of the phone's camera so the E* range aren't suitable.
I don't think my E71 has ever crashed or shown any signs of slowdown despite having a boatload of 3rd party apps installed.
The number of apps isn't the issue - I don't install many. It's (primarily) the number of text messages I have archived on it. This has been a problem with every Nokia I've owned.
I just timed it: opening the messaging application (to get to the main menu with new message, Inbox, etc) took about 10s. If I'm foolish enough to open the My Folders folder (where I have archived messages in 4 sub folders) it took 2.5mins to show the folder list, and then takes about 20s to cursor between folders (that's not to go into the folder, just to move the cursor down over one). That is just plain ridiculous, and is clearly down to the quality of the messaging application.
Add to that the brain dead predictive text implementation (which is so out of date compared with phones from other manufacturers) and I have to conclude that Nokia have given up innovating on the software side completely.
The girlfriend's Sony Ericsson seems much better, although as yet untested with a large message archive.