A gorgeous phone with impressive battery life, good features and a very tempting price

A phone with twin SIM card slots offers the convenience of two phone numbers, although the phone suffers from a couple of basic usability and performance problems.

The next Google phone will be Kogan's Agora and it's looking to be much more understated, but perhaps sensible, design than the flashier T-Mobile G1.

If you’re not bothered about 3G and want a fully-featured WM6 device it makes a bargain choice, though you can save even more cash with Palm’s Centro.

No high-speed internet or bells and whistles, but an easy-to-use and pocketable email phone nonetheless

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

Wants Windows Mobile without all the bells and whistles? This cheapie is under $500

They're good for music and photos, but how do Sony Ericsson phones handle the Web? Our first test run of the K660i shows some promise.

A snappy performer, but let down by a fiddly keyboard.

A bit large for our liking but the price makes it tempting.

An interesting concept, but there are far more capable devices around.

A slider mobile for music on the go -- until the battery runs dry, that is.

Mid-range priced but fully featured, Panasonic's EB-VS3 is our new favourite chatbrick.

The N-Gage is as chunky as a phone, but when you use it with both hands to play games the N-Gage shines. The 3D processor is good, so you can get some reasonable depth-of-field gaming on the device.

Sony never lets you forget that it creates Personal Entertainment Organisers; Personal Data Assistants simply aren't trendy enough. But if you ignore the marketing, it rapidly becomes clear that the TJ35 is going head-to-head with the supposedly business-oriented Palm Tungsten E (January 2004, cover CD).

At this stage you can get modules for games, memory expansion and backup, a digital camera, an MP3 player, a GPS and a mobile phone module

An entry level PDA

Functionally the daVinci is the bare minimum as far as PDAs go so I was intrigued with the idea of a PalmOS device for $329.

We had one of the special releases of this version of the Palm, which comes with a translucent plastic shell