One of the first Next G handsets arrives in the labs. Hello Mobile Foxtel!

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

This isn’t the phone that you buy for the menial task of calling people.

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

Design, feeling and aesthetics combine into a functional beauty.

Big and heavy but the features this 3G phone sports are phenomenal.

This very stylish clamshell phone from Sony Ericsson proves it’s not just a pretty face.

It’s not hard for other models to leave this one in the dust.

It’s the Volvo of the new range of Sony Ericsson mobile phones. And that’s not a bad thing.

This is the kind of phone that makes its owners roll off features and praise at you. It’s not perfect though.

Why does newer and better have to mean ugly too?

Look ma -- no hands! Looking cool, but does Jabra's BlueTooth hand free phone speaker enhance your life?

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

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

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.

Nokia’s offering feels large but is quite smallfor a 3G phone. It also sports a secondself-portrait camera though this is forvideo calls. Pictures can be usefully stored on aside-mounted Mini SD card.

The latest Moto clamshell won’t surpriseprevious model users: it’s the same oldstuff yet again.

Impeccable timing from Sony Ericsson sawthe company launch its update on thegalactically popular T610 this month. Andit just so happens to sport Australia’s first twomegapixel camera.

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.