I just bought an unlocked Motorola V60g and I must say, what an excellent phone.  I know its an old phone now, which makes it affordable.  I am pleased to announce it doesn't do colour, fancy poly ringtones, java games, color faceplates, or other silly things.  Instead it does what a phone should do, excellent RF, amazing voice quality, and good build quality.  It is the natural successor to my Motorola P280.

I am lamenting the loss of good quality phones.  Don't give me the "my t200, t68, t300, etc, are good" they are not.  They have horrible RF, bad voice quality compared to a p280 or V60g.  I have tried other phones and always come back to my p280 hoping something smaller and equivalent quality came along (offered by Fido anyhow).  Knowing this sad situation makes me want to buy another V60g to put away in case my current one breaks in a couple years.  This happened with my T28w, I wanted to buy another, but they were discontinued.  I shouldn't have to worry about this, but with the last 2-3 of generally horrible GSM phones offered by Fido and phone manufacturers alike, it is something to think about.  When was the last time Nokia released a good all round phone? the 6190?  Ericsson was the T28W,  Sony-Ericcson.... never..., Remember that I am mostly talking about locked Fido phones, I don't have much experience with $800 unlocked models.