I quite loved my HTC Aria for the first 18months of it’s time at my side. It’s tiny and (was) amazing. When I got it it was superior in almost every way to my old iPhone 3G - smaller (which I believe to be a good thing), better camera, better battery, integration with the Google universe, etc. - there was nothing it couldn’t do that the iPhone could and it could do things that the iPhone couldn’t. Oh, and I got it for less than half the price of a new iPhone. Sadly, now it must be retired. It has definitely been phased out of a usefulness. The once amazing battery now struggles to make it to dinnertime, and that if I use it for not much more than a dumbphone would do. If I want to use maps or post many photos, I better have a charger ready. Further issues include questionable refreshing of gmails when I go to fetch; and routinely I have to relogin to twitter. All very frustrating!

Ok, so the question is what to get. Any brand of phone now seems to be able to do everything I’d try to use a phone to do. Perhaps my highest value: Size. It must be small. I do not want to try to stuff a tablet in my pocket.

I think this means I’m going back to iPhone. The question is: iPhone 4S or New iPhone? I’m all for Android, but is there any decent small model?

I think the 4S is my best choice for size and bang-for-the-buck (once the price drops with the New iPhone’s release) however my concern is that it will be phased out in a year.