Phones, and Apple

What to explain first? Well, the purpose of the post might help...

My phone contract is running out next month, and what I usually end up doing is when my contract runs out, ditching the phone and getting another. I like new phones, I like having a phone that's better than my current one, a bigger screen, a bigger camera, more space for music.

My current phone is a Nokia N95 8gig. And i'm having trouble figuring out what I'd like a phone to do that this one doesn't. The most obvious answer that springs to my mind is the application things you can get on the iPhone (according to the ads!) some of that stuff looks extremely useful, although I can split a bill into 5 in my head, some of the other stuff just screams as being brilliantly useful.

Last I checked, an iPhone didn't have a great camera though, and I like having a good camera. There is also the slight issue that i'm put off by Apple. It's very little to do with them doing a bad job, and more to do with gaming. I've never owned an Apple computer, but I tend to laugh at people who do, because games get made for PC's, then ported to Macs, it doesn't tend to be the other way round.

Apple has tended to offer better media though, and well before iPods, if you were doing any serious graphical work, you'd want an Apple over a PC. When iPods came out, I was listening to music from my phone, and I was damned if you thought I was going to pay £100 or more to carry around another device.

The Nokia I have now is the 3rd in a row, I had an LG before that, and another Nokia before that, so i'm kind of comfortable with Nokia phones. But it seems to me that the latest offerings from Nokia are lagging behind other people. The iPhone seems to offer much better music and application options, and if they've sorted the camera out on later models, it might be better all round. But the next trouble I have, is that iPhones seem so "Trendy" which has always slightly put me off anything.

I'm also quite confused that the company that offers the best in graphical media brought out a phone with such a poor camera.

I do realise this post is very disjointed, but I'm confused over the issue really. I'm half tempted to get a contract on the most expensive phone I can find, then sell it, and stick to using the N95. 8gig is enough space for me, the Camera is nice, and the leap from 5 megapixils to 8 isn't huge, and I'm in no rush, and i'm not sold that Touch Screen is a good idea, I try and avoid getting natural oils all over my screen, and I like texting while watching something else.

If I want to change the music on it, I tend to carry around my entire music collection on a portable 320gig harddrive, and I have my netbook usually since it's so light.