AKICOLJ - phones, laptops &c

I am thinking of replacing:
- my mobile phone (around seven years old, very basic even by the standards of the time I bought it, and with a failing battery)
- our laptop (two years old, hard drive filling up, DVD drive broken so I'm currently using an external one).

I still don't use my mobile a great deal, but more than I used to. I don't need the latest and greatest model, but I am a bit envious when I see phones that can handle more than just voice and text!

Latop: I don't do any gaming or video editing, or indeed anything that's very processor intensive, but I need a reasonably sized hard drive for photos and music. I might want to get both a reasonably large desktop replacement, and a netbook.

So - any recommendations? Any anti-recommendations? Advice on make / model / spec / network / anything else would all be appreciated.

Thanks!