I have a love-hate relationship with my Nokia 6280. Well. I lie. Mostly a deep hatred relationship - except for the camera, which at 2MP is handy to have on me all the time. To date:

• It refused to charge at random periods for a period of 4 months. Replacement charger has only delayed this happening again.
• It crashes. Like Windows Mobile. For no reason
• If you're lucky to get it charging, it'll crash when a phonecall comes in. But only after you've answered the god-damn call.
• It's a cheap, nasty handset. Feels horrible, the springs inside the slider are making funny sounds. For the first time ever, I'm glad I agreed to buy specific insurance for the handset from Vodafone. Never before has a phone felt to likely to break.
• I have yet to make a successful 3G video call. Not that I really need to, but it'd be nice if my 3G handset were to, y'know say actually work?
• Syncing. Sucks. The phone doesn't offer the ability to specify what each number is - Mobile, Office etc - until after you've saved them to the phone. And then you have to access it through way to many menus. Problem is, when it syncs, iSync simply puts numbers into a 'Other' category.
• The music player is all right, I guess. But so utterly primitive, that I can't believe they used it as a marketing point.
• I've been utterly disappointed that I've had to send it in for Firmware updates. Vodafone didn't do enough testing.

That, folks, is why I'll happily pay whatever the price of iPhone is¹. Because Apple always gives a shit about UX UI and everything in between. Limiting what the networks can do to a phone - brilliant idea. Using OS X (of some form) - I'll happily take that. I've never enjoyed working with a computer as much as I've enjoyed using Mac OS X.

Someone else got kinda frustrated with their 6280 (Ondra) - and threw it against a wall. I salute you. My 6280 is already cowering with the fear of the iPhone's arrival already.

¹It must be noted that I'm holding judgement on iPhone purely for contractual reasons - if the deal isn't right when the carrier's packages are announced, I'm honestly not sure what I'll do. Probably head back to Symbian. Symbian rocks.

Tags: iPhone, Nokia, Mobile Phone