A good range of business features are slightly let down by the form factor.

The Walkman has evolved into a phone. And it's a lot better than we were expecting it to be.

Why does newer and better have to mean ugly too?

If you’re wondering why we mention the K750i it’s because this is practically exactly the same phone.

It's a phone! It's an MP3 player! It's convergence!

It's not often that a company releases a product that is as functional as it is stylish, and can wow the masses in droves. Samsung's D500 does just this, combining the looks of its last generation E800 slide phone and a feature set to rival anything currently on the market.

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.

Wider than a normal phone and encroaching on PDA girth turf, the BlackBerry 7100v is both a capable phone and a capable PDA.

Plenty of modern phones support email, of course, but what always made BlackBerry special was its push technology. With this, you don't need to dial up to collect your email: just sit back and wait for the messages to come to you. Wherever you are, if an urgent email comes through to any of your email addresses -- and the 7100v supports up to 10 -- you can act on it instantly.

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.