Well, actually I re-contracted and got a phone. Starhub gave me a S$50 upgrade voucher for me to use to purchase a handphone and I used this voucher to get this Nokia Handphone with a 2-year contract. The model is Nokia E51 and it looks quite nice. A little too long (shape) for a handphone but at least it is slim enough for me to fit into my pocket. I have seen other handphones which comes so very thick that I cannot understand how does one carry it around. Unless of course if you carry a purse everywhere you go like a girl or a French guy. For it’s look, I think it is pretty good looking. A stylish metallic casing (I am using the bronze coloured one) and black keypad. The thing I hate about my old phone, it looks too plastic for me. Metallic casings make the mobile phone look very modern.

Anyway, it comes with a ton of features like Wireless Internet surfing using Wifi, 2.0 megapixel camera, email client software, voice recorder, 3G, HSDPA access and many more. What is surprisingly is that I got this phone free! And with so much features, you would expect the phone to be big and bulky, but as I said before it isn’t. I really love the wireless surfing, however the screen on this handphone is just too small for anyone to do real internet surfing. It also accepts MicroSD card for more storage, which is important for people like me who uses our mobile phone to listen to music like MP3 and other audio. The built-in memory is about 130MB. I am also constantly using the email client they have to read my emails. However, this is not blackberry so it’s basically just an email reader and you will need an Internet access to get your mails.

I am trying my best to get used to this handphone but it is pretty user-friendly. I guess all Nokia phones are very user-friendly. Text messaging is very easy but I think my old Nokia phone is even easier. Hey, this one comes with more options than the old phone, so I guess one more step isn’t exactly much to complain about. And everything new needs a little to get used to, right?

This phone comes with a one year warranty. I hope that it won’t be like my previous phone which died a few days after I purchased it. And the worst thing, the repair took 3 weeks to complete! The Nokia service center in Singapore really needs to pull up their socks as I think the poor and slow service will ruin Nokia’s reputation in the long run. I actually wanted to get a Sony Ericsson phone but my friend convinced me that this E51 is a very value for money.