Thinnest Phones

Decent Windows Mobile 6 touchscreen phone. Pan across pages with TouchFlo. Looks good. Feels good. The HTC Touch has no 3G or HSDPA. If you want 3G, see the HTC Touch Dual or Touch Cruise.

Decent Wi-Fi phone with push email. No 3G, half-QWERTY keyboard, expandable memory and 3.5 mm jack. If you text a lot, you might prefer a phone with a full QWERTY keyboard.

Good email-centric phone with QWERTY keyboard (2 letters per key). GPS satellite navigation, but no 3G or Wi-Fi.

3G quad-band slider phone with Nokia Maps, 3.2 megapixel camera, microSD memory card slot, FM radio and 2.2-inch QVGA screen. No GPS, but you can buy a Nokia Bluetooth GPS Module LD-4W. Glossy steel exterior and aluminium centre key.

Blackberry's first 3G HSDPA phone. GPS, enterprise grade Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g), microSDHC memory card slot (up to 16 GB), QWERTY keyboard, 2 MP camera, quad-band, Blackberry OS 4.6, 2.4-inch HVGA screen (480 x 320). Stylish black exterior with customizable leather back-plate.

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.

A funky tri-band slider phone with dual screens, 3 MP camera, music player, FM radio and Keith Haring animated themes. It looks good. The LG KF600 was introduced as a "mind-reading interactive phone". Aha, a Derren Brown wannabe...

Unique mobile phone design. Made of plastic and "adorned with geometric patterns, bevelled surfaces and vibrant colour effects" and "turn heads with an iconic look". A fashion phone.

Mid-range quad-band slider phone with 3.2 MP camera, dual LED flash, FM radio, Nokia Maps, microSD card slot, TV-out, 2-inch QVGA screen. No 3G.

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.

3-inch 240 x 400 262k colour touchscreen with handwriting recognition, 8 MP camera, auto-rotate display, 3G and HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, FM radio, 100 MB internal memory, SDHC memory card slot (up to 32 GB).

A luxury fashion phone. Excellent build quality, average features and a luxury price tag. Feels good, looks good and does all the basics well.