Sony Ericsson P1i Smartphone

I have the older Sony Ericsson P990i smartfone, which I love, but have dis-connected the speaker somewhere inside by dropping it! I have been using a K800i since which works ok, but it's not enough, I like my gadgets!

A few days ago I got the latest P1i - A great phone which is just loaded with stuff! This is the replacement to the P990i Smartfone. 1 of the main complaints about that phone is that you had to close off each application as you'd used it to avoid draining the battery within hours, including reading a text message! It is also quite bulky. This has been overcome with the P1i. A slimmer design and no battery problems.

I've had this phone for just a few days and after customising and adding new shortcuts, I'm starting to find my way around it a bit easier. There is no 'centre joggle button' to navigate at ease with. The touch screen is active the whole time and is ultra sensitive and without the keypad locked you can find yourself opening up applications, ringing people, texting or whatever else by just picking it up! On the previous P990i, the touch screen did not activate unless you pulled down the flip to reveal the QWERTY keyboard behind.

Having had a mobile phone for some 14 years, I'm way past the point of having to look at the keys for every letter when texting or making notes etc. I'm now having to undo and re-learn all that as the P1i has it's entire alphabet and punctuation set to the format of a QWERTY. Should be easy after spending so many hours at the pc. However it's taking a time getting used to it.

The camera, which at 3.2mp is rather lacking by some standards, still takes a pretty decent pic. MP3 format and loads of memory for all those favourite songs.
Doubles as a PDA, which I'm sure allows you to add a compatible sat nav as did/does the P990i

My contacts are all listed by last name 1st and I can't seem to set the sim to default, having said that, I haven't been entirely through the manual to see if that can be changed, nor have I found a way to remove the 'today' feature from the main screen which I totally dislike.

Personally if I could change anything, I would have the P990i design, with the flip down QWERTY as the optional alternative, all the new featurs from the P1i and solved the problem on the draining battery.

Currently I am torn with wondering whether maybe it'll be better to try and have the old P990i fixed, or even buy another 1, and live with the battery issue like I did previously, or stick with the P1i and learn to live with the bits I don't like about it.

Either way, there'll have to be a compromise.