A relatively lightweight Windows Mobile phone with most of the bells and whistles, but not the outlandish $1,000 price tag.

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

A great keyboard, wonderful screen and loads of features, but battery life is weak and it’s a touch pricey

HTC’s long-awaited Shift is finally here, but despite valiant efforts it fails to revitalise the UMPC template

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.

Poor value and lacks a few high-end features.

One of the best combinations of design and function in a smartphone we've seen for some time.

Nero 7 Premium Reloaded adds mostly esoteric features to regular disc burning.

A phone with a personality crisis, but although it’s no iPhone it makes an interesting choice for business users

A great smartphone – particularly for ‘voice’ users. But we’d like to have seen the ‘touch’ technology run deeper.

It's not for meetings, it's for meeting up. If you don't like the bulk of a Treo, here's your smartphone.

A stylish and rugged business-class smartphone with a huge choice of push-email clients available.

Expensive, but the features are packed in. Just note the lack of Wi-Fi and some strong iPaq competition.

Excellent touches promise so much, including a great screen and browser, but in use it’s unbearably slow

Palm has embraced Microsoft, creating a neat 3G business phone in the process.

A great smartphone – particularly for ‘voice’ users. But we’d like to have seen the ‘touch’ technology run deeper.

The myS-7 from Sagem is the company's first foray into the smartphone market with Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. It's a little larger than the Xphone II but this marginally wider neck means that keys are just that tiny bit wider, and when your main mode of input is the keypad this tiny extra can work wonders.

Not everyone is sold on Windows Mobile Professional, but if you're a fan, then Samsung's latest QWERTY phone is worth a look. We size up the Samsung i780 with Blackberry's Bold to see how they fair.

Packed with features, but too bulky and expensive to compete.

HTC's new Blackberry killer arrives on our desk, and it's every bit the showoff we thought it would be - and that's mean as a compliment.