"Cheap and cheerful" - yep! It's a "voice and texts" phone that is small, thin, light and has reasonably-sized buttons and display. It is clearly disposable, but also shows phones moving into pocket calculator territory, i.e. a quid for something with big buttons and a big display that runs on ambient light, and the plastic case is probably the most expensive item on the bill of materials. Here's to Moore's Law.

arkady is due for an iPhone upgrade when she's had her BlackBerry a while longer, but my old mostly-dead phone, a Motorola V525, was frankly giving me the absolute shits.