> Heh. I wonder - do they deliberately design phones to break after a while?

Not as such, but all the testing is designing to simulate 2 years "in the 
wild".  Hence the phones are designed to pass these tests and nothing more 
(although in practise it's always a bit/a lot more).  For instance we have 
to ensure the brightness of our displays remains above a certain limit after 
what Nokia have decided is 2 years use.  After that they don't care what 
happens.



They didn't use to either, my first phone was a Motorola brick for 80 GBP, 
and my second was a Nokia 3310 for around the same price.  Of course if you 
want the latest all singing all dancing phone, it does, and always has, cost 
a lot more.  There have always been cheap ones available though.

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