Ended up going with an E7 for the missus when her contract was up in the summer. Definately the only decent qwerty landscape device out there. Only issues which would put me off is the lack of storage expandability, and the display resolution. Either sim-free or on a cheap short 12 month contract would make for a decent device. Still plently of life in Symbian contrary to media opinion.

I know a few people with Iphones and WP7 devices, and the WP seem to be better received over the longer term unless the Apple owner is a serious fanboi... Find posts from a few days ago on the N900 V E7 thread about WP. Almost made me think about one!

It is a massive shame that phone choice has almost evaporated to the point that all you can get is a slab with varying OSs, or Blackberry, and I would never drop my own cash on one of those PoS (I have one for work btw).