This is the phone I currently have, the Motorola Rival:
It's a pretty good phone but after about a year of use and dropping it a few times the display is starting to dim and I'm sure it won't last much longer.
I'm thinking about making the transition to a smart phone (at the urging of my fiance) and am thinking about the Palm Veer for my next phone:
It's really cute , the only thing I'm worried about is that the keyboard will be too tiny to actually type with. >.<
At home we have a cordless phone. We used to have this really old rotary phone on our wall though. It looked like this but beige: