Mobile phones to complement your lifestyle

For its target market -- budget users and those who don't want bells and whistles -- the MOTOFONE is an excellent phone option. Those who require more pizzazz will quickly grow irked at its shortcomings, however.

The Sagem my401c is a good choice for those looking for a sweet-and-petite budget handset with a number of entertaining extras.

The BlackBerry 8800 offers several improvements to its predecessor, including GPS and the Pearl trackwheel, although it doesn't support 3G.

Here's a dollop of irony: the best Windows Mobile smartphone has been created by Palm! A bevy of OS enhancements and access to Telstra's Next G mobile broadband network easily make it the best Windows Mobile device we've ever used.

An extremely well-equipped Pocket PC PDA-phone, Dopod has made sure that the 3G-enabled 838 Pro balances features with power so it doesn't leave you hanging when you need to access applications like Skype. Due to its size and weight, however, you'll need a bag if you're going to carry it around.

With a faster processor, the Xda Zinc has a slight performance edge over the Dopod 838 Pro but falls short by a slight margin in terms of aesthetics. Unless you're looking for a QWERTY handheld, there are more options out there.

The 6288 improves on the 6280, but while it performs well, it lacks a standout feature to pull in the punters.

The featureset is a little basic, and the menus need an update but the RIZR is a snazzy-looking slider phone with all the essentials in place.

Samsung's D900 proves that's it's entirely possible to take an existing phone design and put it on a serious slimming diet.

The 6233 is a reasonably priced 3G handset that despite the absence of video calls performs excellently in the vast array of features it does possess. Ultimately, the 6233 is a smallish classically-designed handset that is easy-to-use, and which builds upon the success of previous models like the 6230i, but packs a little more punch.

A clamshell mobile phone that has the right look, but is let down by a terrible menu interface and display.

You'll spend a lot of time keeping it clean and the scroller makes texting tricky, but the Shine is still a covetable piece of metal.

The Nokia 7370 is a trendy-looking phone designed to appeal to fashion-conscious users looking for a decent selection of multimedia features.

While Motorola's RAZR still manages to trigger ultra-thin fashion clones, LG has moved in a different direction with the Chocolate KG800, an understated and stylish mobile phone with a beguiling design twist.

The Nokia N93i 3G smartphone isn't a major step over the previous N93, but it has all the features to please most power users including Wi-Fi and a 3.2-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens.

An excellent phone with plenty of storage space for photos. The camera is above average for a mobile phone, as are the supplied headphones. While there is no need for W800i users to upgrade to this model, the W810i offers an impressive feature set for those considering the purchase.

Nokia's N73 is one of the best camera phones we've seen this year, with a wide range of multimedia and business features tucked under its belt. Responsiveness, however, is not a strong point.

The best camera phone of 2006 so far, the Sony Ericsson K800i outshines all others in term of features and user-friendly design. Aside from a few squabbles with the extra bulk, the K800i makes it easy for first-time 3G users and is an ideal companion for anyone wanting to take happy-snaps on-the-go.

Easily one of the best looking handsets on the market with a good assortment of features including Wi-Fi, quadband support and Quickoffice, but the E65 is better suited to those after business chic rather than business geek.

Consumers that have already been lured by the BlackBerry's popular email functions will love the new-look Pearl, but may be disappointed when comparing it to other high-end consumer devices with 2-megapixel cameras and Wi-Fi connectivity.

Tailored specifically for a more business orientated market, Nokia has adopted the less-is-more strategy for its exterior design. While not specifically designed to be one for the fashion set, it has all the basic multimedia features covered off, and it looks great.

Bang & Olufsen's new Serene handset turns the concept of a mobile phone on its head -- literally.

The Asus P735 is a PDA-phone with several attractive features including business card scanning, 3G connectivity, and PowerPoint presentation control.

It's hard to pigeonhole Nokia's flaship multimedia device, the N95, as a mobile phone. Due in April 2007, it combines a quadband handset (with support for 3G and HSDPA networks) with a GPS navigator and mapping application, 5-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi connectivity, a Web browser and a whole lot more.