Like Nokia 3360 or 6610 but GSM1900/GSM850?

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Kunmui

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I'm looking for the following in a phone to replace my stolen Nokia 6610 (which I really liked) and its crappy replacement, a Motorola C350 (which just doesn't work quite right and refuses to do 850mhz)

Requirements:

- small
- cheap
- sturdy
- candybar, with no external antenna
- GSM850 and GSM1900
- long battery life
- alarm clock

Would be nice but not so nice that I'm willing to pay more:

- flashlight
- slightly more sophisticated alarm clock/calendar
- ability to use as a modem over USB
- quad-band
- ability to sync contacts and/or scheduler

Worthless to me:

- camera
- games
- bluetooth
- instant messaging
- sms
- mms
- wap

Phones I have liked in the past: Nokia 3360, 1221, 5180i (UI, though not the form factor), 6610. Of these I was happiest overall with the 3360 - it was simple and sturdy, and did the thing I really wanted it to do - worked as a phone.

Phones I have hated in the past: Blackberry (as a phone), Sidekick (as a phone), Samsung A650(?, it was some crappy Verizon flip-phone),

Basically, I want a dual-band GSM version of the 3360, or a 6610 that does 850mhz. I looked at the 6030, but it seems like it's quite a bit bigger than the 6610 was in the pictures I found without the added sturdiness that the 3360 provided. My current Motorola C350 hasn't impressed me, but I'd be willing to give them another chance since I was always pretty happy with my iDen phone at my old job.

Any suggestions?
 
Hmmm...hadn't looked at that one. Doesn't exactly meet the "cheap" requirement, but it seems to have everything else.

I'm also looking at the 5140 and the 3220 - the 5140 seems like exactly what I want, but there aren't a lot of them out there since it seems none of the US carriers picked them up so the ones on ebay are expensive. The 3220 is cheap and widely available, if only it didn't have all of the styling subtlety of a cheap tart's handbag.

Thanks for the advice!
 
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