I've had this phone for three years. It is basic--no frills (other reviews list the features)--but never irritating. What a delight to own one device that fulfills its intended function.My calls don't drop, and the menu navigation is intuitive. The backlighting is excellent--I can always read the screen. Every month or so I drop the phone on concrete, tile, or some other hard surface, with the only result being scars on the casing. I've dropped it in a sink filled with dirty dishwater and, um, down a toilet--soaped it up after the latter adventure and it was a little funny-acting for 12 hours until the battery contacts dried, but then everything was back to normal. Amazing.A year ago I noticed that the hinge action was not as tight as it used to be, so thinking it was on its way out, I was going to upgrade my phone. For silly reasons I missed the upgrade boat when I re-upped my T-Mobile contract. However, the hinge loosening turned out not to be an issue--it hasn't gotten worse. The phone has outlasted three chargers and several friendships. Pretty great for a planned obsolecence product.I gather battery life of newer cell models is generally two hours longer than the e105 (up from 3 to 5), and I bet the memory cards are bigger--I'm a text-message pack-rat and don't get to store as many as I'd like. I never set it to view pic messages--don't even know if it can. These are nominal downsides given how I use it. And, I dunno, I feel sort of attached to it at this point.