My inner geek is screaming, I must write about phones again.

Last time I wrote about this, I think I was using my Nokia E61i. While I was using the E61i, I was focusing on whether or not I could be satisfied with a phone of that form factor. I enjoyed how thin it was, but I was really unhappy with how wide it was. I remember speaking of the way I use my bluetooth headset for most of my lengthy calls, but that doesn't minimize the importance of my quick calls on the street or if I've forgotten my headset and am in the car. The phone needs to be comfortable for that.

I also text an awful lot in situations where one-handed use is important. Almost more important than the qwerty keyboard. I found the one-handed use of my E61i pretty uncomfortable and foreign. This is probably because I'd never used that form factor before, but I wasn't warming up to it the way I wanted to. So I've stepped back to my E70 for now and the search continues.

Some of you might wonder why I keep using the E series. Okay, probably none of you are, but I'll pretend you care and keep writing. My blog, so there! Hah!

Anyhow, for the less initiated, Nokia has a couple of classes of smart phones that I can continue - E and N. The E series phones are geared toward productivity and enterprise uses while the N series phones are geared toward multimedia. This is why you'll find a lot of phones with qwerty keyboards on the E series, but a lot of features like better cameras or music players are on the N series.

Personally, I live in the conflicted world of knowing the difference between what I want and what I need.

What I need is my ability to easily SSH around, and that often amounts to a qwerty keyboard. What I want is a device that can replace other devices, like Nokia's new N82 with its 5mp camera and xenon flash that lights up a room like any digital camera's flash and makes my inner shutterbug drool.