Phone selections...

How much do you use your phone? Are you a gadget-freak obsessed with the latest tricks and features, a fashion lover who demands a small, good looking phone, or someone who appreciates a cheap, reliable phone, and is unswayed by the latest trends? We pick our favourite phones for each type of user!

Gadgets

For the gadget lover, things don't get much better than Nokia's N95. Packing a 5 mega pixel camera (with Carl Zeiss lense!), great music player, and full symbian smart phone capabilities into a neat little dual-sliding case, it really is the daddy.

Business

Serious business users will be torn between the various Blackberry and Windows mobile devices. Their connectivity, wide range of applications, and synchronisation options are unmatched amongst more consumer orientated phone, and the extra size is unlikely to be a concern.

Our favourites are O2's Orbit, Blackberry's 7100t, and T-mobiles MDA Mail

All rounders

All rounders. These phones will give you a broad spread of capabilities and reasonable size without breaking the bank. Our favourites are Sony Ericssons K810i and Nokias 5500 Sport

Old faithful.

If you're just looking for a phone that'll get the job done, you have a bewildering array of options. Something small, cheap, and simple would be ideal - but there's no reason you have to sacrifice all modern features. Sony Ericssons awesome little K750i is getting long in the tooth now, but packs decent connectivity, a quick, intuitive menu system, and nice little camera into a convenient package...and best of all it's available 12 months free from a number of sources

Style..

...is of course subjective, but "fashion" phones do share certain traits; slim, sleek and expensive-looking, with an air of exclusivity about them. Kickstarted by Motorola's now legendary Razr, these mobile-phone supermodels are the ones to be seen with:

Nokia 8600

Nokia 7500 "Prism"

Motorola Razr V8

LG Prada