My E72 and why I'm thinking of switching to Androi...

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I'm a Nokia apologist.  There's no denying it, I've been one of the people on these forums over the last few months who wades in amongst the rants and rages and says 'hey guys, it's not so bad, there'll probably be a firmware update one day' and waves a little Finnish flag in Nokia's honour.   
And I have loved my E72.  One of the main reasons I got it was so I could be the only guy in meetings at work who DIDN'T whip out an iPhone (*shudder*).  Instead I get out my cool classy E Series Nokia, like a man who means BUSINESS.   It felt great being the only guy who hadn't spent 700 Euros on an overrated touchscreen toy made by a bunch of control freaks for people who can't HANDLE a real phone.  That's right.
I still love it.  Sort of.  I love that the battery lasts a good four days.  FOUR DAYS.  I enjoy waving it in the faces of my iPhone-owning colleagues and taunting them with its luxurious battery life.  It looks beautiful, so shiny and professional, and feels so RIGHT on the rare occasions when I actually use it as a telephone.  
But.  There's always a but.  And for me it's email.  
I don't know what it is about Exchange email programs, but my friends with iPhones say the same thing.  I didn't have any problems setting up my email accounts on my E72, but I just couldn't believe it when I found that MfE didn't tell me when new emails arrived in one of my subfolders.  Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the universe who uses server-side rules to filter emails into folders.  HELLO??  ANYBODY OUT THERE WITH ME??  MfE would synchronise my subfolders, but if I wanted to see if anything new had arrived, I had to go in and check every single folder manually.  I've asked about this several times on these forums, and can now only conclude that I'm the only person in the universe who uses server-side rules and that I'm insane.  
In any case, this wasn't acceptable to me, but luckily I had a license for Roadsync, which I used on my previous N82.  Ok, it's kind of **bleep** having to run a separate application, but it does the trick, and LO AND BEHOLD, when I go through my list of subfolders it actually indicates which folders have new mail in them!  PRAISE THE LORD!
Or so I thought.  Now I discover that any emails I send aren't synchronised with the Exchange server, so there is absolutely no record of them when I'm back at my PC.  Once again, I'm probably the only person in the universe who wants to keep a record of all the emails I send.  But this is not acceptable - I need to refer to old emails far too often for me to trust sending anything important on my phone now.
And then there's the awful memory management.  If I dare to so much as open ONE BROWSER and, yes I know this is audacious, view ONE web page - half the time the phone runs out of memory and borks.  ONE BROWSER.  This phone has plenty of RAM, there must be something wrong with how it's managed.  
And another email thing!  My Gmail account works fine in the standard application, except the HTML never loads and I can never retrieve the full messages.  I have the Gmail java app installed which I could use instead, but I refuse to resort to that on principle.
So I find myself in the peculiar situation of having bought a dedicated, hardcore MESSAGING phone, which doesn't have a nice big screen, or any other frills and bells and whistles, cause hey, it's a MESSAGING phone.  But it turns out, and it has taken me months to realise this, is absolutely awful when it comes to messaging.  Subfolders in Exchange!?  Is that so much to ask for?  And what about being able to multi-task a couple of apps without running out of RAM?  Five years ago I had an HP 6515, a truly awful awful awful phone, but the email management on it was absolutely perfect.  It did what I expected it to i,e. allowed me to manage my emails just like I do on my laptop.  I actually still have it somewhere, maybe I should dig it out!
I hate flashy touchscreen phones.  I really do.  I hate the way their batteries run dry if you so much as breathe near them.  But I'm now seriously thinking of switching to one of those **bleep** new Android phones that HTC is churning out.  I have no idea if the email clients are any better on Android, but if nothing else, it would satisfy my insatiable Google fetish.
And at least I still wouldn't be another mindless drone with an iPhone.
In the unlikely event that anyone has made it this far, congratulations and thanks for listening.  My therapist told me I had to get all of this off my chest.  
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I see your point. I have also resisted fat touchscreen phones and waited a lot for the perfect one, the E72, only to find it it is not that perfect.
In a way, it matches all I wanted... native strong encryption, decent hardware, etc. But it has some problems.
The issues with email are a problem in such a business communicator, but to me they are not very relevant (I don't need to synch my work email).
To me that biggest deal breaker so far are the problems with memory. I feel like I have a new gadget and am already getting out of error messages as if it's an outdated brick.
I have an 6220 Classic that boots with twice as much free RAM as the E72. Granted, the OS is a bit simpler but not all that much. I don't know what kind of muppet memory management is going on in the E72 but I boot with about 40 MB free RAM and after loading a few resident apps it is down to 31 MB. Then the more I use the phone the more it leaks until eventually it is down to <20 and either reboots itself or I do it myself.
After some hard resets I concluded that not installing fishy software does help with the leaks, but not much.,,, the thing leaks just by being alive. Every time you see that breathing light exhale it means that a KB has died and went to Symbian heaven.
Running fat apps like Ovi Maps, Sygic Mobile, Skype, Opera Mobile and others is a problem unless nothing else is running.
Are you taking a walk navigating with Maps but want to take a few photos of the scenery? I did that this weekend. Well maybe you'll be able to open the camera app while navigating... hmm "Out of Memory Error"... now, let's try again... There, I closed the Log, no more apps open... Ohh look, it opened the Camera, great... lets take some photos....-click- -click- ok... back to Maps to move on oh no... Ovi Maps closed itself.
Pity, pity... Could be a decent phone but the RAM issue is getting on my nerves. I'm starting to doubt it will ever be fixed by firmware flashing. The low amount of ram and its poor management is to me the single biggest flaw of the E72.
Unlike you, I feel Android is too immature and will only bring many limitations and other problems. Right now I'm out of ideas, except perhaps waiting to see what WiMo 7 is bringing... I do like the 9.3 FP2 but the overall experience is a bit annoying right now.... I'm always waiting to see which app will be closed due to low ram.
PS: I do love the one key torch, and truth be told, most if it all. If it only had memory beyond 2004-standards.