Summary: I bought this phone after tiring of the mediocre VGA cam in my Motorola V360. I wanted a 2MP (or higher) camera phone that would take sharp pics for blogging and sharing online but did not want a candybar style that requires you to constantly lock and unlock the keypad. [this phone lets you lock the top nav keys but it's really not necessary] Most of the higher end camera phones are candybar style, but this one fits the bill with quadband, internet, 2MP camera, and quality construction.

Many people write that if you need a 5MP camera phone you should get a 5MP camera. I tend to agree - the convenience of a 2MP phone is ideal, and good enough for 4x6 prints, if you have the camera extremely stabilized for sharpness. When they offer a 3MP or higher camera phone in the same slim size, without an extra $300-400 cost, I'll go for it. I haven't had a single picture with this phone blur... but a close-up shot of a Philly soft pretzel came out distorted. Outside/natural or sun light is of course going to work best. Visit lakedavid.com to view some of my pictures.

This Nokia is a nice hybrid, ideal for business users or those who like the internet feature but don't want a full QWERTY keyboard. The WLAN feature saves you having to buy a data plan, but is only useful if you have wireless readily available. I've fought with a glitch where it works, with ease, on some networks, but on others does not. It returns a message \"No gateway reply\" despite correct setup paramaters and password. Presumeably this is only a problem if you're trying to use it on someone else's network (i.e., at work) and don't have access to router settings. If you're at home, I would suspect you can fix the issue by changing the encryption type.

The WLAN feature also seems to have a much weaker antenna than a laptop does, for picking up the signal. However, if you're in a coffee shop with free wireless, or at home, it's phenomenally convenient for checking your email or looking up a quick Google map. I've gotten gmail to work successfully with both the gmail for mobile app, as well as the build in e-mail software. Picture messages and text messages are also easy to do if you're on t-mobile -- you can use their website to download the settings from a similar model and it works.

The Symbian software is very different than the lower-end phones I've used. But it's very easy to figure out (even despite the Finnish user guide myworldphones sent me?!). It's not far from windows icons, so even a beginner can figure it out. There is a relatively smaller amount of advanced information on the 'net to help you troubleshoot or learn the tricks with this phone, but plenty of people that love it.

The battery is super if you don't use the WLAN, or don't use it much. If you do, it'll run down within a day or two.

The best part of this phone is that you can email yourself the pics you took, instead of dealing with the cable (or bluetooth adapters). I have a 1GB microSD card in mine and they're very cheap to pick up today. This is even more storage than my digital camera SD card...and the photos occupy only 250-300k.

I haven't fully explored the multimedia/music capabilities except for easily putting my own MP3 ringtone in place. If you want a full fledged music phone I'd probably recommend one of the SE's for instance the Z710.

Overall I'm very happy with this purchase and would recommend it.

Summary: The phone is good, I have no complaints and made the right choice with this one. Pros - Wifi access, symbian phone, can use skype and other voip, thin, light weight, solid phone with good slide mechanism Cons - no radio, no flash on the camera. Battery life is OK but not exceptional but no real complaints, complex to understand the phone features initially, only one camera so no video calls (do many people use this feature though?)