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my favourite handsets on the market today are the HTC Magic and HTC Hero.
I like iPhones but I don't like Apple's artificial restrictions on them.
I don't like Windows Mobile (haven't seen 6.5 in action yet though so can't comment on it)
I like BlackBerry but the Storm was an abortion. The Bold is excellent, and I'm using a Curve 8900 at the moment which is lovely but lacks 3G - ie it's great as a work phone.
i am a fan of Nokia but S60 is looking a bit ropey at the moment. I'm using an N97 this week and am struggling to understand how they allowed it out of the factory. It's the buggiest, slowest and least intuitive handset i've used since the Samsung Omnia, which is saying a bit. Pretty embarrassing for Nokia, actually.
Some of Samsung's new handsets have stunning hardware (the AMOLED screens they use on the Omnia HD, Jet, Omnia 2 and Galaxy are fucking insanely cool) but I'm not a huge fan of Samsung's TouchWiz UI (and they use it on WinMo and proprietary OS phones - ie the Jet). Speaking of the Jet, it totally cranks because it uses the same 800MHz chipset as the Omnia 2 but runs a proprietary non-smartphone OS, so it runs much lighter, but it still has most of the features that people want in smartphones. Nice.
The HTC Magic would be perfect for me if it had a 3.5mm headphone jack. The Hero has a 3.5mm jack (yay!!) but the HTC Sense UI they've added slows the responsiveness of the handset a bit. It is a fucking amazing UI (better than iPhone UI in my opinion) but it needs beefier hardware. I am a big wrap for Android though, I think it's the duck's pajamas.
That is my opinion but everyone has different needs from their phone.