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Which one is the best smart phone? Well… This depends on what is important for you. Even if you read the latest reviews you could still be confused about which smart phone you would like to buy.

If you are looking for the best aesthetic, Apple iPhone 3G and the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 might be the best. For Best Usability the winner is Apple

iPhone 3G followed by Nokia E71 and the HTC Touch Diamond.

iPhone 3G has superb parts but still needs some big features on it, and price is pretty big not everyone can afford to buy one. It has a simple design and maybe that’s the key, and the typical characteristic for Apple’s products. Because of it’s  simplicity this phone is delivered without a manual in it’s box. But there are people that said that they needed Google several times to search for methods on how to perform certain tasks.

Even if it’s still not a 3G phone, the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 it’s impressively lightweight -91g-  and very slim. But the improving in the BlackBerry is the dual-input QWERTY keypad with it’s keys that share two letters.

Nokia E71 comes with a sexy design being sleeker than Nokia E61 i. The good things at this phone are full QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, feature-rich, Wi-Fi, GPS and HSDPA. It has an excellent battery life and strong voice, productivity tools and messaging. The bad parts are the facts that it’s keyboard is a bit cramped and the display is positioned on the small side.

Performance is important to, as with any computer system best performance is a must. Even if they test your patience seriously, smartphones impair productivity. But in this category -Best Performance- on the first place is ranked the BlackBerry Pearl 8120, followed by i-mate Ultimate 6150.



The i-mate Ultimate 6150 has an excellent VGA display and a fast 520 MHz processor with XGA TV-Out and excellent connectivity options. Too bad that it has a dismal battery life and it’s large and has a  heavy handset. The Ultimate 6150 is far from being named the fastest Windows Mobile device that is currently available.

On connectivity the best is i-mate Ultimate 8502 because it has 3.5G data speeds, USB connections, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. On the second place is i-mate Ultimate 9502 and on the third one is i-mate Ultimate 6150. So, if you want the phone with the best connectivity you probable should get an i-mate Ultimate.

All the smartphones have useful features included but none has them all. Nokia E71 seem have most of the features that are available now for the mobile phones. The Nokia E71 is followed by the i-mate Ultimate 9502 and by the Apple iPhone 3G.

Nokia E71 is the winner for Best Value category and is followed by Apple iPhone 3G and Samsung I 780.



The Samsung SGH-i780 has a separate charger and two batteries and could be a good choice for the mobile professional. But it has the screen to small for some applications 2.5 inch display and it’s a bit bulky. It has a good mini-QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS/EDGE, connectivity, tri-band GSM and 3G/HSPDA. I is equipped with 129 MB of RAM and 256 MB of ROM but you can always add a micro SD card. You can find this phone on both Vodafone and Optus for $799 at Vodafone without maps and at Optus for about $AU849 with maps and GPS.

Best smart phone in Australia could be i-mate Ultimate 8502 for it’s basic criteria and value for money. It is solid and slim, with TV-out Telstra services including Foxtel, GPS and Wi-Fi and excellent connectivity including HSPA. Too bad that it has a low resolution display if you compared it with previous i-mates and a small QWERTY keyboard. This phone has even great greater mechanical input compared to the previous phones from Ultimate and it was the first full HSPA smartphone available in Australia together with the 9502. The bottom line: The 8502 does nothing more then what it’s supposed to do but it would be much better if it had a bigger software package.



Nokia E90 Communicator is another smart phone. It is true that is expensive but also that is the most impressive of all. This could be a suitable phone for the business people because of it’s big number of features oriented to business. After ten years of Communicator and ten Communicator phones Nokia released the E90 with a lot of Hi-Fi functions almost close to SCi-Fi but with a design that could be better. It has a QWERTY keypad and a huge display for the current standards with a resolution of 800 x 352 pixels. Using the keypad is not that easy, unless you have fingers as a piano player has. So if you are not a women with a small bag, or a obsessed of small phones with simple and original designs you could try this smart phone for sure.

HTC TyTN II is a decent Windows Mobile PDA-phone that could please the business users because of it’s features. The good things about this phone are Wi-Fi, HSDPA, Excellent QWERTY keyboard and the GPS WITH CoPilot 7 maps. Too bad that is huge with a heavy handset and a poor battery life.



Palm Treo 500v has a stand-by up to 24o hours and a talk time up to 4 hours and 30 minutes. It as a 2 Mega Pixel camera with 1600 x 1200 pixels, and the dimensions are 110 x 61.5 x 16.5 mm. It has full QWERTY keyboard and 5-way navigation button. The good things about this phone are: not carrier locked, jazzed up windows Mobile 6 Interface and the bad ones: No Wi-Fi and no HSDPA. If you want a phone with QWERTY keyboard you should go in a mobile stores and try also the BlackBerry Curve 8300 and the Palm OS-based Treo 680 and see which one you like more.

There is no best smart phone in Australia. There are more. You just have to chose the best smart phone for you, the one that suits you the best.