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Is anyone doing high quality non-smart phones anymore? I'm looking for something that's small, sturdy with long battery life. Preferably with good music playing.

I suppose Sony Ericssons's non-android phones are pretty good in that space, are there any others?

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Well… Nokia kinda is. Check out the S40 Asha phones Nokia released today. (Though maybe they class as smartphones too?)

Yeah, I guess... I really don't regard Symbian as a viable platform, though

First off, S40 isn't Symbian. Secondly, didn't you just ask for a featurephone then why do you care about the platform?

Oh right. Good point.

Let me rephrase what I really feel: After my three previous Nokia phones, I don't feel Nokia is a viable producer of high quality phones. In fact, part of me wants to punish them for selling me such junk and enveloping me in some sort of cognitive dissonance field that made me think they were doing good work.

Then again, Elop got there to change exactly that, so perhaps I should give them a benefit of doubt now.

Nokia's non-smartphones don't have Symbian. They have S40.

SE planned to stop producing non-Android phones in 2012

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