Pick my next phone.

Vodafone are, of course, now composed entirely of evil. Budget cuts are now popularly measured in percentages of a Vodafone (six billion quid).

Given all that, I'm a Vodafone customer on a really nice £15/mo plan they don't actually do any more, and it's upgrade time! So I can get a BlackBerry Curve 8900 (I like arkady's lots, even though its intarweb is only GPRS and wifi) for £15 and staying on my plan for another 24 months (though I'll probably tack on an £8/mo data plan as well, for obvious reasons).

What can I get in the not-so-dumbphone stakes for minimal outlay if I go somewhere else? Are any of Orange, T-Mobile or O₂ actually appreciably less evil? Do I say "bugger the cute kittens with a Thatcher, gimme shiny"? What's the lay of the land, both politically and gadgetwise?

I tend to hardly talk and hardly text — the main present use of my phone is answering Wikimedia press calls — so minimal both is fine. Arkady uses 21MB data a month doing GMail, Twitter, maps and photos (the 8900 hops onto wifi where available); I expect my usage would be similar.

Or I could keep my existing extremely dumb phone and go to a £10/mo SIM-only contract with 300 minutes and unlimited texts, which is way more of either than I need. I assume the others have similar offerings.