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Are we really so weak that we absolutely cannot do without a smart phone until manufacturers actually start giving us what we want? I mean, we're the goddamn customers. Vote with your feet.

Already done.

My phones:
* Ericsson GH688, 500-800 sek used, back when Ericsson was king.
* Ericsson T28s, 1 sek + 24 month @ 149 sek subscription. Most beautiful phone I've ever had. Quality was shitty though.
* Siemens C55, bought with one year subscription. Don't know if the phone was for free, probably was. Can't say it was much better. Had JAVA but I didn't used it. Much longer battery life, killed by water from food in a plastic container.
* Sony-Ericsson z300i, 250 sek used. Best phone I have. Reliable and would probably take a three story fall right into stone and survive with no issues whatsoever. Replaceable shell which would take the impact. (The T28s is aluminum frame/backplate so pretty solid to .. GH688 got metal frame as well.) I've thrown it with full force over three rooms into my bed back plate, made a dent in the wood but nothing happened with the phone.
* Motorola w220, 350 sek with pre-paid card. Don't ask me why. Because I could get a phone for cheap? Similar battery life to the z300i but it's hard to say it's better. Worse battery life, probably worse sound quality, shitty tones. Got FM-radio but requires hands-free.

So there you go =P

After the T28s with two years subscription I was waiting for something cool to come up, nothing did. Or well, there was the Ericsson T66i which was amazing but I didn't got it back then. Small buttons and not much of an improvement over my T28s. Better than the three phones following it though ;D

Was waiting for an Android phone which was actually open and with all future upgrades because I don't see the need to replace the hardware all the freaking time. But Google didn't sold the Nexus one here so. The Nexus S would solve that but whatever. Would get an HTC phone for Android I guess because their track record is the best.

Currently own Nokia stock though for some stupid reason so ATM I would obviously want to help them out ;D. The N900 is a little too old even though the screen and such still make it top among the crop. It can also run the early versions of MeeGo (plus someone ported Android to it, don't know if everything work?) The N8 obviously comes with Symbian^3, I would had preferred if they had given an offer to upgrade it to MeeGo once released. Worse resolution than the N900 and cost more but it got HDMI output, supports UMS for harddrives, USB memory sticks and what not, can play HD video for 6 hours and got "Big screen" software where you use the phone as a remote for the video/music content on screen. It also supports USB OGT so you can hook up an USB HUB with USB keyboard and mouse and then the HDMI to a screen and you get your own very portable desktop computer. Probably quite cool and convenient for say GPG keys with e-mail, Irssi if someone ported it and what not =P

But use QT.

Preferably I would get something like "N9" with N900 resolution or better, E7 keyboard and which ran MeeGo with complete openness and user replaceable firmware.

Pretty please? =P

N900 - http://smartmobile.nu/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/nokia-n900.jpg
N8 - http://blog.phoneslimited.co.uk/files/2010/05/n8-colours-pl1.jpg
E7 -

T-Mobile used to sell bluetooth enabled mini-rc cars.
You could steer it (AFAIK) from any bluetooth phone, but it would only charge off a Sony-Ericsson phone

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=1741
http://www.clubsonyericsson.com/en/products_accesories_car100.shtml

I'm really chuffed with my SLVR. It is fairly basic in functionality (which I like) but most importantly it's beautifully slim and a more mature phone. To me, far too many phones are becoming like the Wasp T12 Special, appealing to younger generations who like to impress each other with the sheer volume of gadgets/crap on their handsets. Who really needs a program to compose" 'music' on their phones?

To me, less is more. I do like a handset to have a smart appearance, however, and the C116 just doesn't do it for me...

I recently got really tired of the Palm platform and bought a Sony Ericsson P910i instead with the Symbian UIQ operating system, and I could not be happier! It opens what ever I throw at it, and it has replaced my mobile phone too. The built-in calendar and task software also does their job very well.

It also runs the Opera web browser, so if I'm bored I can always check on good ol' Slashdot on the run!

IMHO Apple must cobrand with Sony instead, just check these P910 specifications

Sony Ericsson P810/P900:
Club Sony Ericsson

XDA II:
infosync.nl

Digital Video Cameras:

Sony DCR-IP1 Micro MV
DCR-IP1

Samsung Digital Gadget ITCAM9 / ITCAM7
ITCAM9