Can anyone recommend a Nokia smartphone type thingy please?

[DitaVonCheese]

I have always had cheap shitey Nokias. I love Nokias. I understand them. I find them intuitive to use. I can send a text in seconds, seconds I tell you.

Then I got jealous of all the children I see with smartphones so I got a smartphone. It's an HTC Touch Diamond or something like that. I hate it. HATE IT. It has no bloody buttons. When I turn the alarm off in the morning I phone my parents. It likes to start a new line every time I use punctuation. It has turned me into my own mum when it comes to using my phone. HATE IT.

But I do quite like being able to get the internet. I just want buttons again.

Is there such a thing as a Nokia smartphone type thing that I can get the internet on but which I can also actually use without feeling like a complete moron? And whcih is a couple of years old so I can pick it up relatively cheaply off ebay get rid of this piece of shit stupid bastard phone?

Thanking you.

I am writing this using my Nokia E71. It's a bit old now but it's a Nokia smart phone which has a qwerty keyboard - not a touch screen.
It has it's limitations but I find it ok for texting, mumsnet, email. It has GPS so includes sat nav function. I also have an app for OSmaps for walking, and an app (Gravity) for Twitter which also does Facebook and FourSquare to a limited extent.

So if you are after a small ish phone with buttons rather than touch screen, then Nokia E71 could well meet your needs.

Is it actually the buttons that you miss, or the intuitive ease of operation of the old nokias? If I'm not mistaken, the Diamond is a Windows Mobile phone. I would suggest you might be better served with one of the newer Android phones or an Iphone, as they are very user friendly and certainly in the 2 years I've had mine (HTC Desire) I've never had the problems you describe even though that too has an extremely limited range of physical buttons.

If you do desparately want the buttons - the obvious choice would be Blackberry. There are some Android phones with buttons out there as well, though.