well after a couple of bricks in between '98 and '04 I bought a then-brand-new nokia 6230. it was awesome, I've been using it for almost 4 years. for that time 3G browsing, camera, mp3 and all was pretty good stuff.
then I finally switched to N95 8GB which was also good, but it didn't have that 'awww' factor for me, since I basically went through with amazement on my previous nokia.
Now it's been a year with N900, and I fully like it. yes, there are bugs and lags, but the good stuff prevails by far. lots of people here complain, but I think they just got used too much to all of its great sides, like lovely UI, chat conversatons, firm build, awesome default browser, etc etc.