Mobile Phones UK: Reviews & Best Buys

LG Cookie
The LG KP500 is a touchscreen phone for those on a budget. It's a compact device but with a large touchscreen display that's easy and fun to use. With a 3.2 megapixel camera, a media player, an FM radio, Bluetooth wireless connectivity and a memory card slot, this phone has all the essentials. Although it misses out on 3G and a top class camera, it has most features that most people will want, and for the money you'd be hard pressed to find anything better than this!

Best buy: *Free* with free line rental or a free laptop from Mobiles.co.uk (Black) or Mobiles.co.uk (Pink Cookie); or £97.95 on PAYG from the Carphone Warehouse (Black or Pink) or £78.25 from Dialaphone (Pink) or £88.05 from Dialaphone (Black).

Samsung Tocco Lite
The Tocco Lite is Samsung's answer to the LG Cookie. Available in black or pink it's a bargain touchscreen phone. Although it lacks 3G, it offers a fabulous fun user interface with easy access to Facebook and YouTube, plus all the features that you'd expect: a 3.2 megapixel camera, video recording, music player, FM radio with RDS, memory card slot and Bluetooth. Available free on contract with a choice of free gifts: from free line rental to a free laptop or XBOX 360.

Best buy: *Free* with free line rental or a free Acer laptop from Mobiles.co.uk (Black) or Mobiles.co.uk (Pink) or free with a free PS3 from Dialaphone (Black); or £97.79 on PAYG from Dialaphone (Black or White) or £99.95 from the Carphone Warehouse (Black or Pink).

Apple iPhone 3G S
The iPhone 3G S is easily the best iPhone ever. Apple have filled in the missing pieces of the jigsaw and created possibly the best phone / media player / internet device ever. Highlights include GPS navigation with a digital compass, OS X applications from the App Store, super fast web browsing, Apple's famous music-playing capabilities, up to 32 GB of built-in memory, and Wi-Fi. The only real problem is the price.

Best buy: *Free* on contract from Mobiles.co.uk (16GB Black) or Mobiles.co.uk (16GB White) or £96.89 on contract from Mobiles.co.uk (32GB Black) or Mobiles.co.uk (32GB White).

Nokia N97
Available in Black or White, the N97 is more a mobile computer than a mobile phone. Packed with every imaginable feature, Nokia's designers have succeeded in creating a device that is supremely powerful yet easy to use, with a user-friendly touchscreen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. With music, video, photos, email, web and downloadable apps all easily accessible from the customisable home page, the N97 delivers everything that we could ask for on the move. Big, heavy and expensive, but just about worth it!

Best buy: *Free* from Dialaphone (White) or Mobiles.co.uk (Black) or £499 sim free direct from Nokia.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
Nokia's first touchscreen phone is impressively good. It may not have quite the polished feel of the iPhone, but with so many good features, it's in many ways better than the iPhone. Headline features include the very high resolution touchscreen with 16 million colours, the 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 3G video calling, an excellent web browser with support for Flash, the music player & FM radio, GPS positioning with Nokia Maps, WiFi, Bluetooth and an 8GB memory card. Available in black, red or blue.

Best buy: *Free* with half-price line rental or a free gift (PlayStation 3 or Dell laptop) from Mobiles.co.uk (Black) or with half-price line rental from Dialaphone (Black) or Dialaphone (Comes With Music Edition); or £185.70 on PAYG from Dialaphone.

LG Viewty Smart
The LG Viewty Smart is a massively upgraded version of the original Viewty. Its feature list includes a 480x800 hi-res 3 inch touchscreen running LG's new S-Class 3D user interface, a brilliant 8 megapixel camera with autofocus and a quality lens, music player, FM radio, A-GPS, 1.5GB memory, WiFi and HSDPA. All this in a slimline and lightweight modern-looking phone makes this a winner!

Best buy: *Free* with half-price line rental from Mobiles.co.uk (Silver) or Dialaphone (Black) or Dialaphone (Silver).

LG Viewty
We love the Viewty! Combining a touchscreen user interface with the latest technology, the Viewty ticks all the boxes: 5 megapixel camera, 3G video calling, high quality video camera, MP3 player, FM radio, HSDPA for broadband internet speeds and bags of memory, this is one of LG's best phones. Available in black, silver, purple & pink (new).

Best buy: *Free* with a free laptop from Mobiles.co.uk (Silver); or on Pay as you Go for £97.80 from Dialaphone (Black or Silver) or £99.95 from the Carphone Warehouse (Purple or Silver).

LG Arena
The LG Arena is probably the best phone to be released in the first quarter of 2009. It's a compact touchscreen phone with a breathtaking screen, a fantastic new user-friendly interface, quality looks and a massive array of features: 5 megapixel camera with autofocus & flash, 3G video calling, music player with Dolby Mobile, FM radio, A-GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, FM transmitter, 3.5mm headphone jack. Oh, and we nearly forgot to mention the 8GB memory, expandable to 40GB! It really is a stunner! But beware - don't buy it on Orange!

Best buy: *Free* with £35 line rental reduced to £12.50 from Mobiles.co.uk or free from Dialaphone.