I actually just ditched my iPhone for a phone only marginally more sophisticated than this[1], but with the same standby time. I thought about trying to find a

I actually just ditched my iPhone for a phone only marginally more sophisticated than this[1], but with the same standby time. I thought about trying to find an F3 instead, the only thing that put me off was the apparently very crummy text messaging. That's one thing that I still wanted to do. It's quite hard to find a decent quality non-color-screen phone, though. Nokia still make at least one, but to cut costs they put the earpiece on the back side of the handset (combined with the loudspeaker). Which apparently makes it hard to talk on sensibly. I think if a manufacturer took current technology and built a phone with a ten year old feature set and no colour screen, to a ~$80 RRP budget, they could get months of standby time and a tiny light device that would last for decades.[2] [1] http://projectgus.com/2010/09/my-no-iphone-no-smartphone-experiment/ http://projectgus.com/2010/09/my-no-iphone-no-smartphone-exp... (I submitted it the other day but didn't get much interest, hope this doesn't come across as spamming.) [2] Not sure how big the market is, though. Even in the "third world" countries everyone is talking about, fancy phones are usually a big status symbol.