HTC Advantage x7501

I'm considering buying the HTC x7501 for my next mobile phone. GPS/Google Maps, Pocket Office, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Tri-Band UMTS/HSDPA, Windows Mobile 6 (not necessarily a good thing, it's nearly unusable without SPB Pocket Plus), WiMP (equally iffy Windows Media Player), Opera/tabbed browsing, 624MHz processor, 128MB RAM/256MB ROM, 8GB Microdrive, 3MP Cam, 5" VGA screen, TV/monitor out, detachable magnetic keyboard.

I've had a long and pleasant relationship with HTC/i-Mate. I was (my dealer tells me) one of the first people to get an i-Mate PDA2K in Naija. That one was a helpful little buddy of mine for a long time. Then I got an i-Mate K-Jam for my girlfriend. My brother has also used an i-Mate Jam and an HTC TyTN.

After my lovely PDA2K I ran through two i-Mate Jasjars in less than two years. Both got in trouble: I damaged the mini-USB port on the first one; was visiting a friend in Seattle when his kid got his feet tangled in the sync cable and the connector got bent out of shape. The problem was I actually tried to straighten it out by plugging it into the phone and twisting it back and forth.

That's how the mini-USB port broke off the circuit board. The phone actually managed to keep working until one night in an Abuja dance club when I put it in my back pocket and sat on it, cracked the screen. Was prob'ly distracted by all the pretty ladies :).

Then I was on a bike in Lagos one rainy day when my second Jasjar fell out of my jacket pocket and into a puddle. By the time I went back and found it, would you believe a car had run over it? Very sad.

So I'm looking at the HTC 7501 now, which they say is enormous but extremely functional. All the reviews I've seen are positive, and I hope I can get one before the year runs out. Aren't I a gadget-silly boy?