I am a person who work in mobile handset industry for past 5yrs in London. My company has market not only in Uk but also in European and Asian countries. As a person who is in charge of Mobile phone warehouse where I deal with thousands of handsets in a day always recommend Nokia for rough users, beginners ad old people.
A person who is trendy and interested in music and other media work should first think about SE W850i. I personally use this model and recommend all those who "care" their handsets while using to go for SE W850i. The best feature to highlight is its music system and stereo effect that can have good output in a party by connecting to amplifier.
Photo DJ and Video DJ and Music DJ are other two features that can entertain people through much help. The photo DJ helps to make your own album and Video DJ helps in editing and making a short film of your own. Music DJ helps you to compose your own music that gives good effect due to Polyphonic ringtone facility.
Handset itself has 16MB memory capacity and Memory Stick PRO Duo™ support upto 4GB can be used that helps in storing more data that any can think of maximum.
High Speed Internet browsing and Bluetooth facility are added advatages. The software CD provided with the handset has software, which helps easy and fast transefr of data from PC to Mobile and Mobile to PC.
These are opinions not only from me but from the other four friends and two relatives of mine who bought the same product after me recommending them.