Gone are the days of Stepford wife mothers who cook in high heels and form a faceless workforce devoted to their families and their homes. Today, our mums come with in-built personalities.
Luckily there's a mobile phone to match every mother. For the high-flying matriarchs there's the business-focused BlackBerry Pearl 8120, for the media-hungry mum there's Nokia N95 8GB model. Perhaps your mum has simpler tastes preferring a phone just for the basics of calling and texting. For these mothers either the Nokia 6300 or Sony Ericsson's S500i would fit the bill nicely, without breaking the bank.
For the mum who has recently become a nanna, Samsung's lightweight G600 with its 5-megapixel camera is perfect for taking pics of the grandkids.
With Mother's Day just around the corner we've compiled a list of the best phones for mum, whoever she may be.
BlackBerry Pearl 8120
A sexy, full-featured smartphone that sorely needs faster Web access.
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.
Samsung G600
Designed as a phone first, the slimline G600 is an excellent camera phone if you don't mind going without a slew of features available in its competition.
Sony Ericsson S500i
What the S500i lacks in the high-end gadgetry of its competition, it makes up for it in style, ease-of-use and its budget price tag.
Nokia 6300
The Nokia 6300 is a style-orientated phone that does what it says on the tin, as well as providing a very tactile experience.
Sony Ericsson Z610i
Sony Ericsson's 3G-capable Z610i flip phone comes in three mirror-finish colours and sports a 2-megapixel camera with picture blogging.
ratt
02/05/2007 07:03 PM
I'd love to buy my wife a phone for a present. Trouble is - you can't port her number over without her knowing about it. Not much of a present then... Even if you buy a handset outright and put her current sim card in, you still have to pay monthly connection fees, so you miss out on the benefits of included calls in plans where you also get the handset. Come on telcos, fix this and you get a huge market boost. Let people port their number AFTER they have connected to a plan (at some later date)
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