Mobile phones and Blackberries

Mobile phones and emails are the bane of my life. Great when they work and dreadful when they don't. But the main problem is that they simply don't make mobile phones like they used to. No, not the ones currently doing the rounds in the Virgin ad (love the ad) but the smaller more recent hard to destroy Nokia phones. About 4 years ago we had fantastic basic phones that were fairly indestructible. They took the knocks, the mud, the being dropped from a great height, and the never-ending fishing through deep pockets in the pouring rain which results in marked screens and muddy phones. Nowadays the phones are so slim, so sophisticated (am I really going to want to access Facebook when I am upside down in a flower bed) and so fragile that I am lucky if they last 3 months. So please could some mobile phone company come up with a phone that will give me access to email, messaging, phonecalls and alarms (very much needed when the dawn chorus doesn't work) that we can use and use outside!!