
In Canada, my employer supplied me with a blackberry for email and phoning. Here, I get a blackberry that does data only and I've been given a SIM for voice calls to "put into my own phone". So I need to get one.
My new colleagues seem to carry around bberry in one pocket and iphone in the other. Seems like overkill. Can someone suggest a basic, small phone that has good telephony (including works with standard earpieces and ideally bluetooth, works everywhere in the world), on which I can do basic texting like order a taxi? I don't need a web browser, maps, camera, music, .... the bberry does all that. It just won't phone or SMS.
I've found the following website with a large list, but I'm overwhelmed...
http://www.whymobile.com/. I don't need a SIM to go along with it.
For the meanwhile, I'm using someone's old borrowed Samsung phone, which is almost as big as the bberry and seems to have a UI carefully designed to be as needlessly complicated as possible.
Thanks - and be kind! I've been blissfully ignorant of new cellphone features since 2002.