Lightest Phones

An excellent cheap PAYG Sony Ericsson Walkman music phone. Buy a W200i for under £30. Super bargain.

Slider phone with 3.2 MP camera and Dynamic Adaptive Control Pad (Dacp). Available SIM-free, the Samsung E950 is low-end mid-range phone.

Excellent value 3G phone. Make Skype phone calls. Basic feature set, but easy to use and cheap to buy.

Slim, lightweight (just 86 g) quad-band Walkman slider phone with good features. 3G, HSDPA, 2 MP camera, Walkman player...

Cute shiny fashionable music phone with a nifty touch-sensitive OLED external display. Something different to show your friends. Buy for less than £80 on PAYG. Tasty.

Near Field Communication (NFC) phone - Nokia's second NFC phone. Use the phone like a smartcard - mobile ticketing, mobile payments, smart posters and more. Quad-band, 2 MP camera, FM visual radio, 3G, 2-inch screen, up to 4 GB micorSD memory card.

Basic 3G phone. A little old (July 2006), but still worth a look if you're after a low-cost 3G phone. The 2 MP camera isn't very good.

Cheap 3-inch 240 x 400 pixel touchscreen phone with accelerometer, 3.2 MP camera. The cheapest touchscreen phone in the UK. Just £109.

Lightweight Symbian OS 9.3 smartphone with 5 MP Xenon flash camera, Assisted GPS, EDGE, 3G and HSDPA. Small screen, no Wi-Fi. Good value handset.

Make free Skype-to-Skype calls with the 3 Skypephone S2. Improvements over the original 3 Skypephone include HSDPA, 3.2 MP camera, QVGA (240 x 320 screen resolution), 2.2-inch screen, stainless steel case and integrated modem. Very few spec details have been released.

Quad-band 3G HSDPA candybar music phone. Dedicated N-Gage gaming keys, music keys, Nokia Say and Play (control the music player with your voice), 24 hour music playback time, Symbian OS 9.3 and microSD memory card slot (up to 8 GB).

Thin, slim and stylish candybar phone. Stainless steel and black plastic casing, no 3G, 2 MP camera. Quality build.