A good effort by Palm, but it's a long way behind the best both ergonomically and functionally

It's reasonably well featured, with the usual complement of high-end smartphone hardware: fast mobile data in the shape of HSDPA, Wi-Fi, assisted GPS, Bluetooth and even infrared. Other highlights include a transflective screen, a 3.5mm headphone ...

A great multimedia phone with surprising business features, but it feels clunky

It has the best camera of all the phones here at 5 megapixels, with a dual-LED flash, too. And this Nokia not only has the usual array of smartphone hardware – HSDPA mobile data, Wi-Fi adapter, Bluetooth and assisted GPS – it's also easy to get to ...

Slim, sleek, powerful and good value, but poor battery life rules this phone out of the running

However, underneath it all lurks Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, which means you'll have to use the stylus frequently. But there are benefits that Windows Mobile brings over and above the iPhone and Symbian-based phones here: namely, document ...

Durable and laden with features, but let down by average performance and poor battery life

The HP is also laden with features, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS with Google Maps preloaded, a 3.0 megapixel camera with LED flash and a MicroSD slot. The camera isn't fantastic and GPS can occasionally be horrendously slow to find a signal, but ...

A highly desirable device that still leads the way for ease of use, even if it isn't the most rounded phone around

It remains a fantastic audio and video player, with a 3.5mm headphone socket and full iPod touch capabilities. It's also a very usable phone: designed from the ground up for touchscreen operation, it doesn't suffer from the problems that the Windows ...

This phone can do it all, but it's exceedingly frustrating to use, and that counts it out

It even beats the iPhone in some respects. In the box is a good pair of headphones, or you can use your own via the 3.5mm adapter provided. Plus, there's a fantastic array of software extras. With the Omnia, you can shoot video (the iPhone can't) and ...

The most intensely anticipated phone over the last six months in our labs has to be the HTC Dream. Read our first look here.

The Blackberry Storm 9500 is luxurious and innovative in equal degree, but the slightly cheaper Bold is better to type on.

Elsewhere, the Storm is an extremely high-quality device. The brushed-metal rear panel is a big improvement over the Bold's cheesy leatherette back, and the whole thing has a classy feel

Costly and fiddly to use, despite a decent keyboard and high-resolution screen.

At this size, a high resolution can be more of a disadvantage than a boon, especially as it's Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional that underlies this phone's fancy-looking finger-driven interface

The next Google phone will be Kogan's Agora and it's looking to be much more understated, but perhaps sensible, design than the flashier T-Mobile G1.