Purely because of its size, even the smallest PDA isn’t something you’re likely to feel comfortable holding to your ear as a phone for long periods of time. And, despite its slim curves and great physique, the Xda II is no exception.

A fast lifestyle phone that might be more at home in the business world.

O2's attempt at the all-singing, all-dancing convergence device over-extends itself.

The o2 Xphone is one of the first phones in Australia to use Microsoft's new embedded SmartPhone 2003 OS, which is a highly, highly pared down and customised version of Windows XP. Anyone familiar with the Windows interface shouldn't have much trouble operating this phone. Having said that however, it does take some getting used to when navigating the menu systems, but it doesn't actually take long to get up to speed.

O2’s phone is the smartest of the lotwithout being a full-on smart phone.It runs Windows Mobile making itfeel more like a PDA, but accessing the keyfunctions soon becomes intuitive. It’s the onlyphone without a flash, but even this would notrescue the poor picture quality.

The i-mate Smartphone2 is one of the new breed to feature the new Smartphone 2003 OS, and is almost identical to the O2 Xphone (March 2004, page 55), except for a few cosmetic changes.

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The XDA (January 2003, page 41) and the XDA II have both done well in PC Authority reviews before, but our main complaint has been one of size: the XDA's are normal PDAs, but big phones. The XDA IIs still keeps a large touchscreen, but the unit is slightly slimmer and thinner than the previous models.

There's one thing that's immediately noticeable and annoying about the otherwise superb Xphone II: it's incredibly slow to turn on and boot up. We clocked about 72 seconds from pressing the power button to connecting to our service, with about a minute of that taken up by just booting the phone's OS.

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This is the second Smartphone we've reviewed (O2's Xphone, March 2004, page 55) but, unlike the Xphone, the Motorola MPx200 features a clamshell design. Smallish, black and sleek, the MPx200 is a Tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 phone with GPRS which enables email, SMS, MMS and WAP capabilities.

The past two years have been littered with attempts at combining a phone with a PDA. The first was O2 with its XDA (January 2003, page 41) - an excellent first try, and one that will be revised this month.

The key differentiator with the PDA2k over other PDAs is the whopping 128MB of RAM in-built for media and files. On top of this there's a separate 64MB ROM for the OS and an SD/MMC slot for further expansion.

Trademarks point to Nokia's next two lines of phones, a netbook called Booklet and a move into financial services

The new handset takes on Nokia E71 and BlackBerry Bold, with touschscreen, WiFi and QWERTY keyboard..

Over a quarter of users not signed up to Apple-agreed tariffs.

Fantastic hardware. The GPS software is mediocre, but you can buy your own.

Single platform to ensure interoperability between Zune, mobile phone and PC.

Two new candybar handsets bring classic Nokia style and features to make the most diehard mobile fans weep

New OS includes mobile version of Internet Explorer.