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This is one of those cases where I got pressured into agreeing to a phone update.

Here’s what happened.

Youngest son Edward decided he wanted my (old) Motorola A1000 more than his aging LGU880 handset. I knew the A1000 was a brick and slow as a wet week, so I gladly acquiesced - we swapped SIM cards and all was sweet. However it didn’t take him long to tire of the A1000 and, being aware of such things, found that Three Mobile would give him a new phone for no money. He chose the Nokia N73 (which looks like a damn fine phone) and now he’s happy as.

Meanwhile, I was stuck with the functional but dull LG handset. One call to Three saw me sign up to receive the new 6110 and I also upgraded my NetConnect card to the newer HSDPA-capable card. Also for zero dollars.

Both arrived by courier today. haven’t tried the NetConnect card, so I’ll save that for another post. But the 6110 is currently being charged and the few calls I’ve had so far are amazingly clear. The unit itself is smaller than I thought, and being inside a metal building I haven’t been able to connect to the GPS network to try its positioning capabilities. The menu structure is a bit overwhelming but I put that down to unfamiliarity with the Nokia way of doing things - very different from LG/ Motorola/ Sony Ericsson, which are my last few phones.

I’ll repost about the 6110 in a few weeks, when I’ve gone through it all.