The Android platform is found in an increasingly large number of smartphones, and Samsung has entered into the fray with its first offering, the Galaxy i7500, supplied with a snugly fitting protective slipcase. The physical design ...

The original BlackBerry Bold did quite a lot of good for RIM in terms of carrying it away from its purely business-user focus and towards a wider audience. The Bold 9700 does yet more, maintaining a ...

Imagine a fully-fledged Windows-toting computer that measures just 174 x 84 x 25mm and weighs a mere 430g. You could almost get such a machine into a pocket, albeit that you'd really notice the weight. Well, ...

Acer's first handset to run the Android operating system is an interesting smartphone. There is a lot to like about it but, as ever, a few things let the side down. The Liquid has a ...

Nokia's X6 is one of just a handful of handsets from the company to have a touchscreen, and it is the first to have a capacitive touchscreen. This means it is more responsive than its resistive ...

Nokia's E-series handsets have traditionally been aimed solely at the corporate market. In recent years, however, we've seen a raft of extra features creep in and, as a result, models such as the new E72 catch ...

High megapixel counts don't always make for the best cameras. In fact at a time when digital camera makers are concentrating on things other than raw pixel count, mobile phone manufacturers are still trying to beat ...

O2's Xda range of Windows Mobile smartphones has something for just about everyone on the design front, but O2 still manages to come up with a new twist from time to time. The Venn is a ...

Sometimes you could be forgiven for thinking the candybar handset is dead. But in fact it is alive and kicking, and even blingy old Samsung takes a pot-shot at it from time to time. The Lucido ...

Google's Android platform is starting to appear in a wide range of smartphones from several hardware manufacturers. None has embraced it as fully as HTC, though, and the Hero is arguably the best Android based handset ...

Why do they do it? Why do companies who can make perfectly good technologies sometimes decide to throw the baby and the bathwater at a bizarre combination that should only see the light of day in ...

LG's Chocolate BL40 is a tall, thin handset, its key claim to fame being its oddly shaped screen. There is a reason for the unusual 800 x 345-pixel display, which measures 4-inches across diagonal corners, and ...

Samsung's Jet has a lot going for it, but Samsung has decided to focus attention on the 800Mhz processor that beats at its heart. This, says Samsung, gives it the ability to play back multimedia well, ...

Mobile phone manufacturers try hard to differentiate each handset they produce in terms of both looks and services. This can result in some quite bizarre looking devices, or, as in the case of the Crystal GD900 ...

Toshiba is known for laptop computers but not so much for phones and smartphones. Its TG01 is a Windows Mobile smartphone with some good points and some very irritating ones. The physical design is both ...

The N97 is Nokia's logical successor to its popular business-focussed Communicator range. Like the Communicators it has a small QWERTY keyboard. But unlike them it has a touchscreen, is small and pocket friendly at 117 x ...

Sony Ericsson's C903 is a slightly less well featured handset than the top-end C905. Both are sliders, and the C903 is slightly smaller and a fair bit lighter. At 96g and 97mm tall, 49mm wide and ...

Windows Mobile comes in two flavours, one for touch screens and one for smartphones without touch screens. We don't see a great deal of the latter these days, but it is still around, and HTC has ...

The W995 is without a doubt the best Walkman phone I've seen. Sony Ericsson has managed to come up with a phone that works well on the ergonomics front, looks good, has plenty of features and ...

HTC has plenty of Windows Mobile smartphones in its current catalogue, but it has taken the company a long time to come up with a successor to the superb TyTN II. That device was characterised ...