Some of you guys are making me feel somewhat extravagant! I spent $215 on my Sony phone this summer. (It replaced an iPhone 3Gs.) I wanted something more reliable than average so I read a ton of reviews. But when I went to look at my top candidates, the final deciding factors were the look of the display and feel of the case (not as slippery as many phones).
Occasionally I need to use my phone for processing credit cards with a swipe dongle; Paypal and Square apps no longer supported the 3Gs' software and it couldn't be upgraded further. Otherwise, the phone (although pathetically slow to load web pages) was still humming along.
