Looking for a new phone? I've picked out four of my favourite phones just for you.
LG KF600 www.lgmobile.com
The KF600 is an innovative dual-display slider with a touch-sensitive interactpad screen with contextual soft keys. Unfortunately this concept is scuffered by an iffy interface. A spacious mechanized keypad helps out, but this is an ill-conceived phone. Lethargic EDGE speeds hinder web browsing, the 3MP snapper is ruined by shutter and autofocus lag and the music player is woefully basic.
WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT YOU You're a confirmed futurist, willing to suffer a new products fables so long as it gives you a taste of better things that might be just around the corner. Ohers claim youre a sucker for anything sci-fi, but you know better.
I say 3 stars A snazzy slider compromised by half baked functionality.
Outside of stupid-money luxury brand Vertu, you wont find a more upmarket phone than the sapphire. The posher of the new Arte duo, it retains the bullet proof stainless Armour of the 8800 series but sports leather paneling and a gemstone joypad. Theres substance to match its high society style with 3G and a capable 3.2-megapixel snapper, but the 1GB memory and lack of card slot shackle its multimedia potential.
What it says about you You appreciate the finer things in life and have far, far too much money to spend on them. What your latest purchase can actually do is less important than whether its out the price range of everybody else.
The first BlackBerry Pearl manged to make push email vaguely sexy. Apart from adding GPS, a 3.5mm jack and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it design tweak, RIM'S latest massager doesn't move on much from the original, Email is, as always, ultra user-friendly, aided by a compact but thumbable QUERTY-style keyboard. However, multimedia preformance is still ropey, while the telmap-powered sat-nav is competent but not as full featured as some rivals.
What it says about you
The stress of being away from work email brings you out in pustules, but you're fun loving, always take dodgy snaps on drunken nights out and forword sweary to pink shearted chums.
This solid and highly compact candybar carries the worlds most popular VoIP client, Skype, so you can make free internet calls to fellow sypians over Three's 3G network. Existing users just log in, while skype virgins can just sign up using the phone's interface, which workss exactly like its desktop cunterpart. Call quality can flactuate, though, and the phone's other features are pedestrian, but this will take a back seat to gratis pan-ocean blathering.
What it says about you
You're an international jet-setter, as likely to be chatting to the Japanese guy you met working on community projects in Chad as you are to your mate next door. Or youre a cheapskate. Either is fine.
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