Are you someone who pretends you're on the phone while waiting to be served at your favourite cafe?
With Wi-Fi hotspots popping up everywhere, the need to pretend is diminishing as the freedom to connect to the Web from your mobile handset is becoming more readily available. Note the operative word in that sentence is free(dom). Not only is connecting to a Wi-Fi hotspot convenient, but it also means you're dodging the exorbitantly priced mobile data costs currently charged by carriers.
Below is a list of our favourite Wi-Fi capable handsets. The majority of these devices are business-centric smartphones, but look out for Wi-Fi creeping into more consumer-targeted, media-focussed phones as the year rolls on.
BlackBerry Pearl 8120
A sexy, full-featured smartphone that sorely needs faster Web access.
HTC Touch Cruise
While the touchscreen PDA experience won't be for everyone, the Touch Cruise stands out as our favourite of the recent HTC releases.
i-mate Ultimate 8502 
The first HSPA smartphone released in Australia may also be the best Windows Mobile available to date.
HTC TyTN II
It may not be a quantum leap compared with the 838 Pro, but the TyTN II maintains what power users loved in the previous iteration — with a few extras.
Samsung BlackJack
Samsung's BlackJack is a utilitarian PDA-phone which has some consumer-friendly features that aim to balance its workhorse disposition.
Sony Ericsson P1i
The P1i has most of the bells and whistles a business user could want, but the user interface is a little quirky.
Nokia N95 8GB
An upgrade to the crowd-pleasing, GPS-toting N95, this music-focused version adds a larger screen and 8GB of internal memory to its predecessor.
Nokia N82
Nokia's latest N-series handset combines the form factor of the N73 and the feature set of the N95 into one powerful camera-phone package.
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