The M6100 is another phone aimed at mobile music lovers. It’s another slider and comes with headphones and a remote control for skipping tracks, changing volume and answering calls as handsfree. It’s useful because the phone’s controls are minute. The directional pad is only 12mm in diameter meaning even those with not-such-fat fingers will have trouble navigating. Still, the number keys, while small, are more user friendly.

LG quotes talk time at four hours and standby time at 155 hours. However, it only played our MP3 songs for a poor four hours 40 minutes. But, it does support MP3, WMA and WAV files which shames Sony Ericsson’s refusal to support WMA. Sound quality is good but, the fatal flaw is the paltry, non-expandable 128MB memory limit.

BlueTooth and a 1.3-megapixel camera are included, but our overwhelming impression is it’s too small in almost every respect. It’s only 9cm tall but its 2cm girth feels chunky and, at $458, it’s not cheap.