Phones

I first used a DECT phone a few years ago, now when using a corded phone I always seem to need to refer to something that is out of reach.

Fed up with holding your mobile phone to your eye? There is an alternative.

Yes this is a mobile phone, but it is also so much more. Digital camera and also able to take video. It can play MP3 and also Java games. However as yet it has stubbornly refused to do the washing up.

Described as a union of design and technology, the Siemens SL65 could be the phone for you.

Hands-free communication with a vibrator – it is possible with Bluetooth.

Last November I discovered Skype at version 0.97, it worked well but as with the 'Chicken and the Egg' problem not all that many users. This week Skype for the first time notched one million concurrent users.

It’s Samsung calling! This time I have been flipping open the Samsung SGH-P510 camera phone.

Is yours a standard, one-piece model or maybe you prefer a flip top? Then again there are sliders and swivellers. Currently I am using a Motorola V80 which puts me in the swivel category.

There are a lot of ‘cheaper’ phone services available and anyone who makes a reasonable number of calls surely uses one. TeleVoice offers a couple of things that most others do not.

Having looked at the LG7100 flip top mobile phone, I was recently given the opportunity to try out the second phone making up LG’s initial offering to the UK marketplace. This was the LG7050 model which adopts a slide down approach to help reduce size and protect the LCD screen.

A top of the range DECT phone with answer phone and second handset. Has a range of features ideally suited to people working from home.

If like me you are old enough to remember the huge items that kept up your muscles and as a sideline pumped out large amounts of electrical interference then what the current range of tiny phones can do is something rather special.

Not yet available on open market as SIM-free (SHAME), but available from Orange on contract.

A beautiful phone and in the top three of the 'T3' poll for gadget of the year i beleive...

Any visiting H G Wells type time-traveller would think that humanity was suffering from an epidemic of violent ear-ache. Everywhere you go people have a hand to their ear as if to relieve pain and seem oblivious to their surroundings. Of course it is a case of mobile phone-itus that is the cause rather than ear-ache – although having to listen to outbreaks of various ring tones and loud one-sided conversations could induce pain in the ear. Still we love mobile phones and all the new features

Close range phone mugging?

A bluetooth headset that doesn't make you look like you have just escaped from a call centre! Very simple to use and functional at a good price aswell.

After spending a month with Motorola A920 here are my views.

A phone using a Microsoft OS? How often does it crash may be your first question, but you'd be surprised...

Is the P800 really that great?

Recommending the 6310i - the IT staffs phone of choice?

Great phone packed with many features, but possibly not the one if you need bigger keypads. If it was good enough for Charlies Angels, would it be good enough for you?

Is it any good and how have I got on with it in real life use?