Extra phone guidence needed.

[Casper]

Guys, I'm looking to buy (well, take out a contract, since I'm able to upgrade) a new cellphone. Now, I'm asking here because I trust your taste/judgement). I would definately get a Motorola but I don't have much choice there. So since I won't buy Nokia, Samsung or Sony Ericsson, and probably anything other than Motorola..I'm at a dead end. So I've looked to HTC. Before I get to that though I saw listed a Motorola M930 - how is this - I can't find it on gsm/phone-arena (is it even a phone?)? Ok, back to HTC - I've looked at the S740, and the Touch Diamond. The touch Pro is looking to waste money since I'm not paying so much per month for 2 years. I need your opinions here! I really don't know since I feel so limitless with my Ming and am afraid I'm left stuck with a 'boring' phone - since the Ming is great fun! I haven't looked at specifications/reviews yet! But Motorola is my favourite, I feel bad doing this. Though, I suppose I don't need another phone, but why not?

[Konig]

Touch Diamond FTW! Iv been lookng at the Touch Pro now, and aksd advises me its pretty good, as does the Touch HD. Any ch\nce you can get the G1? The one from Google for the developers at 424 $ ?

[Casper]

You see the Diamond is around $33 p/m and the Touch Pro is about $55 p/m for 24 months (obviously airtime/smses included). So at the end of the day it's a crap load of money, so I think the Diamond is still expensive (compared to other packages), especially when you're nearing the end of the 24 month period. So the Touch Pro in my opinion is not worth it in my case.

Looked at Diamond's specs. Read TriBand (and Quad-Band ?? Um want quad-band, thank you, which is it?). Maybe I'm just fussy, but 65k colours ?? Otherwise it does seem like a nice phone.

But will I be able to do things like we have been with our Ming's, for e.g. Radio without headset. What else? Fonts, blah, blah, blah! Ok, I understand not everything, but that's probably what I may need to learn to accept!! Oh, and I will buy another Ming if mine ever had to pass away, lol.
Don't see the Touch HD listed here...
Oh and, no G1 - don't even know if it's arriving here, anycase we'd likely be ripped off anyways!!

[Casper]

Getting the Touch Diamond. Just waiting for it to arrive (should have gone to a larger store with stock) - probably early next year. Patience...Better be at least a decent phone, because I'm not really "excited" as such - probably because no phone can beat my Ming!

[Konig]

Awesome! In case you ned any assistance with the software side, you can always talk to aksd or ndc. I think aksd's taught him a few tricks
Oh, and trust me, there is a LOT you can do with those phones Head over to xda developers and have a peek around